Past
Grantees

Dixon Place, New York City, was awarded a two-year grant of $16,000 to support the presentation of new work by emerging artists. Dixon Place is a laboratory in which performance and literary artists may experiment before a live audience. By virtue of its mission and atmosphere, it presents works-in-progress, and has built an audience willing to support artists throughout the creative process.

Mo Donahue, Minneapolis, MN, $6,000 (Completion). Wayward Hearts. For the completion of a feature-length narrative film - a comic look at loneliness in the 70s which explores the lives of three unhappy women who find transcendence from their plight in unconventional ways.

Two-year subsidy of $16,000 was awarded to David Dorfman Dance, New York City, in support of the 1995 and 1996 seasons. This marked the third grant given in support of the choreographer's work. Not only will Jerome funding support the creation of specific works and the general operating expenditures of the company, but it will also assist in the development of large-scale, community-based projects.

A grant of $13,000 was awarded to the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, New York City, in support of its varied activities which develop emerging playwrights. The subsidy will be directed toward intermediate and advanced playwriting workshops encompassing discussions, critiques and readings of members works.

The Drawing Center, in New York City, received a two-year commitment of $25,000 in support of Selections exhibitions and the Viewing Program. Selections exhibitions present the work of emerging and under-represented artists. The Viewing Program is a curatorial service offered to artists, and serves as the primary source from which the Center chooses the works that appear in the Selections exhibitions. Curators meet personally with at least 25 artists per week. A session may include a professional critique and discussion, and advice on exhibition opportunities and presentation venues.

En Garde Arts, New York City, received a grant of $7,500 to cover the participation of two creative artists in a developmental workshop program. Since 1986, En Garde Arts has commissioned playwrights and directors to create theatrical productions which integrate visual arts, performance and architecture. The company has commissioned over 25 large-scale, multimedia collaborative works for sites of social, architectural and/or historical significance. Jerome funding is earmarked for the participation of puppeteer Janie Geiser and playwright Naomi Iizuka.

Ensemble Studio Theater, New York City, received a two-year grant of $24,500 to support its developmental programs for playwrights in the 1994-95 and 1995-96 seasons. Ensemble Studio is dedicated to nurturing individual theater artists and developing new plays by American playwrights. As it approaches its 25th anniversary, it provides an environment which emphasizes process over product, and allows the needs of each individual playwright to determine the methods of a play's growth.

LeAnn Erickson, Iowa City, IA, $3,000 (Completion). From One Place to Another. For the completion of a feature-length video documentary which takes an historical and personal look at the Emma Goldman Clinic for Women in Iowa City, IA.

Evergreen Chronicles, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a grant of $15,000 in support of a literary contest and general publication. Evergreen is a gay and lesbian literary and cultural publication which includes poetry, fiction, visual art and cultural commentary. Its mission is to respond to changing notions of literature, of arts and cultures, and of gay and lesbian peoples. The special issue will be the result of a national contest for collaborative work.

The Foundation Center, New York City, received a two-year grant of $3,000, representing annual support for an organization which provides timely, accurate information about grantmaking in the United States. Thousands of nonprofit organizations have come to rely upon the Center to meet their changing and expanding information needs. Free public access to the Centers five libraries and 205 cooperating collections around the country enables the Center to serve those seeking accurate information on foundations and corporate giving.

Two years of subsidy, totaling $11,000, were awarded to Frank Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in support of the 1995 and 1996 seasons. Frank's mission is to produce work which stretches the skills of creative artists while simultaneously challenging the everyday perceptions of the audience through an exploration of ideas and issues of social, political and cultural concern.

Franklin Furnace, New York City, received $32,000 of which $12,000 was designated for the Emerging Installation and Performance Artist Program and $20,000 for a regranting program titled the Fund for Performance Art. Franklin Furnace selects artists for these two programs through the use of expert peer panels, which consider proposals from artists. The Fund for Performance Art awards grants of between $2,000 and $5,000 to emerging artists so that they may produce work.

Franklin Furnace, New York City, received a two-part grant of $32,000 to continue support for the Fund for Performance Art and the Performance and Installation Artists Series in 1995-96. Under the direction of founder Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace sustains an archive of artist books, a performance art regrant program for emerging artists, and exhibitions of time-based arts, both site-specific works by contemporary artists and historical and contemporary exhibitions of artists books and other ephemeral art.

Franklin Furnace, New York City, received a two-part grant of $32,000 to continue support for the Fund for Performance Art and the Performance and Installation Artists Series in 1995-96. Under the direction of founder Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace sustains an archive of artist books, a performance art regrant program for emerging artists, and exhibitions of time-based arts, both site-specific works by contemporary artists and historical and contemporary exhibitions of artists books and other ephemeral art.

Franklin Furnace, New York City, received $32,000 of which $12,000 was designated for the Emerging Installation and Performance Artist Program and $20,000 for a regranting program titled the Fund for Performance Art. Franklin Furnace selects artists for these two programs through the use of expert peer panels, which consider proposals from artists. The Fund for Performance Art awards grants of between $2,000 and $5,000 to emerging artists so that they may produce work.

Artist VERONICA LYNN FRENNING received support to spend five weeks in the Republic of Korea to study as much of the culture as possible with an emphasis on seeing work in galleries and museums, and making studio visits to artists. Frenning expects to feed her own art work, which is based primarily on personal experiences and memories. This will be a trip to her country of birth, to see a place she cannot recall in memories. She expects the visit to affect her view of the world and her sense of identity.

P.S. 122, New York City, also received $8,000 in designated support for a collaborative project to be undertaken by artist Dan Froot. Funding will support a concert to be presented in May of 1996, under the title Blow Molding, and consisting of five compositions. Saxophone quartet works are to be the centerpiece of the concert. Froots compositional concerns have to do with dynamic spatial relationships, both musical and physical.

JANIE GEISER received support for Magnetic Sleep, an experimental animation using two and three dimensional puppets and live actors in a pictographic, elliptical narrative. Magnetic Sleep was a term used in the 19th Century for hypnosis, referring back to Mesmer and his magnetically/electronically induced trances. The film will center around the figure of a woman hypnotist, and will explore issues of power, manipulation, desire and loss. This will continue Geiser's exploration of the subject of memory, especially as it is intertwined with issues of power.

Playwright-performer BETH GILLELAND will spend two weeks visiting Civil War battle sites in Tennessee and Pennsylvania in order to complete a new play on Mrs. Frances Clayton, who, disguised, joined the Union army during the Civil War in order to be near her husband.

The Jerome Foundation made a $2,000 grant to Grantmakers in the Arts in support of its 1995 program and activities.