Past
Grantees

Musician Dan Rein received $3,850 to spend two months in Tehran, Iran. The purpose of the trip is to study Persian traditional music with two of the country's most respected performers.

A grant of $1,0000 was awarded to composer Phillip Rhodes for six days of travel to Portland and Eugene, Oregon. He'll attend rehearsals and workshops in those cities, in connection with the creation of a new work for The Third Angle new music ensemble.

Artist and University of Minnesota professor, THOMAS ROSE will travel for 30 days in Italy to complete work on a book.

S.A.S.E., Minneapolis, Minnesota, a new entity evolving from the former Whittier Writers' Workshop, is a literary arts organization which believes that multicultural programming is a means of empowerment and equality. S.A.S.E.'s mission is to provide a space and affordable, quality programming, developed and administered by a diverse group of people, to develop craft and present and publish work. Two mentoring programs are planned in the first year of operation. A Jerome Grant of $10,000 was authorized.

Writer MELISSA BIRCH and audio/video producer ELEANOR SAVAGE will travel for 25 days in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina and Kentucky, gathering source material for a video piece and a radio series.

COLLEEN SHEEHY, an art historian and museum education director, will travel for three weeks to Grand Marais, Minnesota, to interview people associated with the Grand Marais Art Colony.

RICHARD SOLLY, a writer, will spend two weeks in Gibonston, Florida, to undertake research for a book of poems about the experience of pain and disability.

Arranger, composer and performer Tim Sparks received $4,300 to spend three weeks in Portugal. He'll study fado guitar techniques in Lisbon, for incorporation into a solo guitar project currently under development.

Carolyn Strachan received support for Drowned Rats, an allegorical comedy, a curious anthropological study of New Yorkers from a rat's point of view. Drowned Rats looks at our lives, through the eyes of the "other" voyeuristically, sometimes exotically, observing the rituals and minutiae of daily lives from the perspective of the underground.