Past
Grantees

The artist will travel to Guangzhou and Fujian provinces, China for 17 days. Kamps will experience cross-cultural immersion as a form of research to complete his novel Drawing Water.

The artist will  travel to Seoul and Gwangju, South Korea for 31 days. Key will research the false national media coverage and news suppression during the Gwangju Uprising (a historic revolt in 1980 against South Korea's militarized regime that sparked the nation’s democratization movement), as well as collect oral histories from surviving members of her family in Gwangju who witnessed the event.

The artists will travel to Northwestern Ontario for research and development on a feature film about the groundbreaking and turbulent life of legendary Ojibway artist Norval Morrisseau (1931 - 2007).

The Kitchen, New York City, received a one-year grant of $26,000 for the Multidisciplinary Commissions Program for New York City-based early career artists to create and present new work in visual arts, dance, music, and theater in 2018–19. The commissioned artists are Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Moriah Evans, Leila Bordreuil, and Morgan Bassichis.

The artist will travel to Boston, Massachusetts for 4 days to interview relatives about his late father and complete research for a book-length collection of poems.

The artist will travel to to the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK for 10 days to study the physiological ramifications of memory and its imposed effect on agency, in order to develop experimental movement methods of performance generation. She will be studying with Professor Nicola Clayton FRS in order to analyze the experience of subjective thinking.

Kundiman, New York City, received a two-year grant of $60,000 for the Kundiman Asian American Writers Mentorship Lab, serving nine New York City-based early career artists annually for a 6-month mentorship program that will combine mentorship, writing workshops, master classes, and a culminating reading in 2019 and 2020.

Lanesboro Arts, Lanesboro, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $36,000 for the Lanesboro Artist Residency Program, providing 2–3 Minnesota or New York City early career/emerging artists per year with 2- or 4-week residencies to live, work and create in Lanesboro’s rural community in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

The Lark, New York City, received a one-year grant of $30,000 for the New Voices Fellowship program, a one-year fellowship for two early career New York City-based playwrights of color under 30 in 2019–20.

The Laundromat Project, New York City, received a two-year grant of $70,000 for the Create Change Artist Residencies and Commissions program, serving five socially-engaged New York City-based early career artists per year and providing a unique platform for the creation of innovative, high-quality public art endeavors of any medium in neighborhoods across New York City in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $150,000 for the new Mirrors and Windows Mentorship Program, a 6-month mentorship program for 12 underrepresented Minnesota emerging/early career writers of color to create and develop new books for children and young adults in 2018 and 2019; and continued support for the year-long Loft Mentor Series Fellowships in support of diverse Minnesota emerging/early career writers creating and developing new work in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction in 2019.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), New York City, received a one-year grant of $28,000 for Workspace, a 9-month residency for 15–30 emerging career artists to create, experiment with, and present new work in 2018–19.

The artist will travel to Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Beijing, China to conduct oral interviews with extended family members and to study Chinese Socialist Realist monuments in support of her Cultural Revolution memoir project.

Ma-Yi Theater Company, New York City, received a two-year grant of $60,000 for support to develop four plays by four early career Asian Women Playwrights: Rehana Lew Mirza, Samantha Chanse, Deepa Purohit, and Jiehae Park in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

Mabou Mines, New York City, received a one-year grant of $30,000 for the Resident Artist Program, providing six early-career New York City-based artists with residencies that include mentoring, stipends, rehearsal and performance space, and technical assistance in order to develop new work in 2019.

Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a one-year grant of $23,000 to support the publication of three early career/emerging writers from New York City or Minnesota in 2019 and 2020.

Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $170,000 for the MCAD-Jerome Foundation Fellowships for Minnesota-based early career artists (four per year) to develop and exhibit new work in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA), Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $48,000 for the Book Arts Mentorship Program (Series VII) for three early career artists in 2018-2019 and the Book Arts Fellowship Program (Series XV) for three early career artists for a year-long residency to create and show new work in 2019–2020.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a one-year grant of $8,000 for its commissioning, development, and production of new work by Minnesota-based early career artists Lauren Yee (playwright) and Eric Mayson (composer).

Momentum: New Dance Works (fiscal sponsor St. Catherine University), St. Paul, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $80,000 to support the commissioning, professional development, creative exchange, and presentation of four early career choreographers in 2018 and 2019.