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Kayla Farrish, Spectacle, BAAD!/Pepatián Dance Your Future, 2018.

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Pramila Vasudevan / Aniccha Arts

2010
Dance
Minnesota
General Program
$7,000
PANGEA WORLD THEATER, Minneapolis, Minnesota, as fiscal sponsor for ANICCHA ARTS, also based in Minneapolis, received $7,000 for the creation, development, and production of a new work for a fall 2010 concert. Pangea World Theater illuminates the human condition, celebrates cultural differences, and promotes human rights by creating and presenting international, multidisciplinary theater. Aniccha Arts is an interactive performance dance company whose members strive to find a strong relationship among dance, sound, and media through interactivity while decreasing the divide among audience and stage. Artistic Director Pramilla Vasudevan will work with collaborators to create Words To Dead Lips (dont say it unless I can eat it), an interactive performance that uses a childs perspective to ruminate on the fulfillment of human potential through indoctrination in the historical context of war in America. The piece employs technology as a mechanism for integrating and exploring the relationship of dance, visual media, and sound in three physical spaces.
Dance

Art in General

2010
Visual Arts
New York City
General Program
$38,000
ART IN GENERAL, New York City, received a two-year grant of $38,000 in support of the New Commissions Program. Art in General supports artists in the production and presentation of new work. It is a resource for emerging artists and developing practices. The 2010-11 exhibition season will mark the sixth year of the New Commissions Program through which the organization has supported and presented 29 significant new works by emerging artists. The program commissions five to seven New York-based emerging artists each year to create new projects in any medium or form. The artists receive commissions; production fees; an exhibition venue; a critical publication; and conceptual, logistical and organizational support.
Visual Arts

Reuben Atlas

2010
Film/Video & New Media
New York City
New York City Film and Video
$15,000
A grant was awarded to REUBEN ATLAS for The Brothers Hypnotic, a feature-length documentary about an all-brass band of brothers from the South Side of Chicago. Brotherhood has long been a guiding ideal in the African American community. For the eight young men who make up the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, brotherhood has the dual significance of family ties and racial solidarity. Theyre all sons of Phil Cochran, a legendary Chicago trumpeter who turned his back on commercial music to pursue astral jazz (with Sun Ra), proto-funk, and Black Power. What was Cochrans ultimate avant-garde experiment? His own sons. They lived an insular communal existence with Cochran and their two mothers Mama Maia and Mama Aquilla complete with homemade clothes, veganism, and invented holidays. Starting at age three and continuing well into adulthood, the boys performed in the family band and were developed as artists and complex human beings under the ever-watchful eye of their determined father.
Film/Video & New Media

Kimberly Bartosik / daela

2010
Dance
New York City
General Program
$10,000
THE FIELD, New York City, as fiscal sponsor for choreographer KIMBERLY BARTOSIK, received $10,000 in support of the development and production of a new work. The Field encourages and cultivates appreciation of the performing arts, and frequently acts as a fiscal sponsor for independent artists in the development, creation, and presentation of music, dance, theater, film and video works. Bartosiks choreographic project, i like penises: a little something in 24 acts, is an evening-length spectacle reflecting on ideas of exchangeability, accumulation, and replacement. In this work for four dancers and three designers, Bartosik will examine the American ethos of dont fix it, replace it. Bartoskis work is built upon the development of a virtuosic movement language, rigorous conceptual explorations, and the creation of highly theatricalized environments.
Dance

Signe Baumane

2010
Film/Video & New Media
New York City
New York City Film and Video
$10,000
Support was awarded to SIGNE BAUMANE for A Guide to Survival, an animated feature that explores the link between the filmmakers bouts with depression and the depression of her Latvian grandmother, Anna. Where does depression come from? Does it live in a far away country and once in a while come to bestow its evil gifts? Or does it live near its sufferer, or actually inside its sufferer and, like a puppet master with strings attached to the limbs, jerk its sufferer around in a mad, painful dance? A Guide to Survival is a film about the depression and mental illness running in the family of the filmmaker. The story explores her familys history along with Latvias tragic place in two world wars. It also shows how historic events collided with the lives of individual people, forcing them to make difficult choices. The films story connects the past with the present through the filmmakers present day struggles with her inner demons in New York City, and her grandmothers struggles of the past in Latvia. The filmmaker will attempt to answer the question, Can you beat the genes?
Film/Video & New Media

Keith Bearden

2010
Film/Video & New Media
New York City
New York City Film and Video
$20,000
A grant was awarded to KEITH BEARDEN for God Hates Kansas, an experimental feature-length narrative that was inspired by Katsuhito Ishiis neo-surrealist drama Cha no Aji. This is the story of an average American family living in small-town Kansas: Mom, twice divorced, out of shape, over-medicated and over-worried, tries to eradicate her normal fears and problems until she becomes the perfect woman of her dreams. Eloise, a shy nine-year-old, precociously fixates on finding true love and the perfect marriage her Mom never had. Dylan, the 22-year-old slacker son who is still at home, has rock star dreams that are five times bigger than his talent or ambition. Uncle John, a regular small town, church-going guy has a big secret: hes gay, and at almost 50, has lost a lot of time in coming to terms with his true self. God Hates Kansas is neither anti-God, nor anti-Kansas. It is a film about how there is great beauty in simple dreams, and the persons we want to be, and lives we want to.
Film/Video & New Media

Patricia Benoit

2010
Film/Video & New Media
New York City
New York City Film and Video
$15,000
PATRICIA BENOIT received support for Ayiti, Ayiti, a feature-length narrative that examines the social and intimate landscapes of exile through three intersecting storylines. Driven from Haiti to New York, Vita, Yannick and Max struggle to adjust to life in a new land. Vita reunites with her husband and tries to forget a history of assault; Yannick arrives at her sisters in Long Island, unwilling to buy into her sisters American dream; and Max shows up at the doorstep of his estranged son, who spends his days fighting everything his father represents. A final scene of reckoning brings the three together, face to face with the inescapable truths of their past. Through suspense, humor, and drama, Ayiti, Ayiti explores the personal fallout of political bloodshed, and the possibility of love, hope and endurance in a time of violence. The film presents what Benoit describes as an honest, complex portrayal of the diverse lives often ignored in the rush towards sensational headlines and shocking news footage of Haiti. This is Benoits debut as a feature-filmmaker. In addition to directing the work, she is also its writer.
Film/Video & New Media

The BodyCartography Project

2010
Dance
Minnesota
General Program
$10,000
SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS, St. Paul, Minnesota, as fiscal sponsor for THE BODYCARTOGRAPHY PROJECT, received $10,000 to support the creation, development, and presentation of the new works Symptom, Closer, and River. Springboards mission is to cultivate a vibrant arts community by connecting artists with the skills, contacts, information, and services they need to make a living and a life. The BodyCartography Project, led by Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, investigates the physical resonance of space in urban, wild, domestic, and social landscapes through dance, video and installation work. Symptom will examine the human body as object of study and producer of knowledge, investigating notions of social bodies versus biological bodies, teasing out dynamics of sibling rivalry, and exploring the gaps among seeing, knowing, and empathy. Research and development will be undertaken for new projects Closer and River. Closer will be a performance installation work exploring intimacy and aesthetic experience at the subtle edges of sensory perception. In River, at sites of environmental significance along the Mississippi River, The BodyCartography Project will develop installations (performance, aural, or visual) in collaboration with ecologists, geologists, biologists, and other artists.
Dance
weekly class

Deborah Black and Karl Cronin

2010
Dance
New York City
Travel and Study
$3,190
DEBORAH BLACK and KARL CRONIN, Ridgewood (Queens), New York, will travel to Childress, Texas. The duo will research and document the experience of being in a small American town, population under 7,000, which was destroyed by the drought and windstorms of the 1930s caused by land misuse. The information gathered from the trip will be used as the foundation for a full-length movement piece, Childress.
Dance

Maria Buyondo

2010
Film/Video & New Media
New York City
Travel and Study
$4,225
MARIA BUYONDO, Brooklyn, New York, will travel to her birthplace, Moscow, Russia to conduct cultural research on her African and Russian roots. He father left her Russian mother when she was five. The research is the foundation for a new film about finding her father, who studied at Patrice Lumumba University and was from Uganda.
Film/Video & New Media

Yanira Castro / a canary torsi

2010
Dance
New York City
General Program
$8,000
THE FIELD, New York City, as fiscal sponsor for choreographer YANIRA CASTRO, received $8,000 in support of the development and production of a new work. Founded by artists for artists, The Field provides services to thousands of performing artists in New York City and beyond. From fostering creative exploration to stewarding innovative fundraising strategies, it helps artists reach their fullest potential. It frequently acts as fiscal sponsor for independent artists' proposals. Formed in 2009, a canary torsi is the name under which New York director/choreographer Yanira Castro makes work alone and collaborates with others. It is engaged in the creation of multidisciplinary interactive environments that have multiple facets: each acts as a stand-alone work and connects to a live performance. Jerome support is directed toward Wilderness, a site-adaptable installation, a dark field within which all elements of the event-audience, performers, and crew-are contained.
Dance

Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.

2010
Literature
New York City
General Program
$17,000
CAVE CANEM, New York City, received a grant of $17,000 to support writing workshops taking place in the fall of 2010 and the spring of 2011, each consisting of eight sessions. Cave Canem is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. Its grown from an initial gathering of 26 poets to become an influential movement with a renowned faculty and high-achieving national fellowship of 314. The workshop Writing Down the Music will explore poetry about music, particularly the music of the African Diaspora. Participants will read essays and poems from various authors, listen to musical compositions, respond to weekly assignments that bring the energy of music into their poetry writing, and engage in constructive critique. Writing Across Cultures will be open to all poets of color and Arab American poets. The workshop will encourage participants to push beyond their comfort zones, experiment with new forms, and consider cultural inflections on poetics.
Literature

The Cedar Cultural Center

2010
Music
Minnesota
General Program
$20,000
THE CEDAR CULTURAL CENTER, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received $20,000 in support of a pilot commissioning program for emerging Minnesota composers. The mission of The Cedar is to promote inter-cultural appreciation and understanding through the presentation of global music and dance. It presents 150 to 200 events each year. The Cedar will commission new compositions from emerging Minnesota composers to be presented as part of the 416 Club. The goals for the program are to facilitate collaborations between artists and the creation of new works, help audiences discover new music, increase exposure for local emerging artists, and foster and develop creativity.
Music

The Center for Fiction at the The Mercantile Library

2010
Literature
New York City
General Program
$25,000
THE CENTER FOR FICTION, New York City, received a grant of $25,000 in support of a re-granting program that will provide space, services, and financial support to emerging New York City fiction writers. The Center is dedicated to celebrating and supporting the creation and enjoyment of fiction. With all of its resources, including an exceptional book collection, a beautiful reading room, expanding website, and ever-growing array of creative programs, the Center seeks to serve the reading public, build a larger audience for fiction, and create a place where readers and writers can share their passion for literature. The Center is a place where writers can work, exchange ideas, and find community. The program is designed to make a difference to fiction writers at critical points in their careers. It includes an honorarium to underwrite time to write, writing space in the Studio, access to Collections, free admission to Center events, discounts on tuition to writing workshops, the option to engage in a mentorship with a freelance editor, two public readings, and the opportunity to publish new work in an online magazine. There will be an open call for applications, which will be reviewed by a selection panel of experienced writers who will select the participants
Literature

Raquel Cepeda

2010
Film/Video & New Media
New York City
New York City Film and Video
$10,000
RAQUEL CEPEDA received support for SOME GIRLS, a feature-length documentary that follows a group of troubled Latina teens from a Bronx-based suicide prevention program who are transformed by an exploration of their roots via the use of ancestral DNA testing, followed by a trip to the seat of the Americas. On that journey to modern-day Dominican Republic, told from the director Raquel Cepeda's viewpoint, the white supremacist narratives about American history they've been taught are challenged, leaving them free to reconstruct their own respective identities. What does it really mean to be American? And, more importantly, what does that look like in today's socio-political and cultural landscape?
Film/Video & New Media

Clubbed Thumb, Inc.

2010
Theater
New York City
General Program
$15,000
CLUBBED THUMB, New York City, received a grant of $15,000 to support the development and production of new works by emerging New York City and/or Minnesota playwrights, including the New Play Boot Camp and SummerWorks. Clubbed Thumb commissions, develops, and produces funny, strange, and provocative new plays by living American writers. It supports the work of emerging playwrights through commissioning, development, and production. It identifies emerging artists and produces innovative new plays, cultivating relationships among theater artists and nurturing artists and their works. The New Play Boot Camp is a two-week development workshop in which three playwrights produce three drafts of a script in four sessions, concluding with a public reading of the works-in-progress. SummerWorks is an annual festival of new work, encompassing plays rehearsed for a month, fully-produced, and running for one week.
Theater

Coffee House Press

2010
Literature
Minnesota
General Program
$18,000
Jerome Foundation authorized a grant of $18,000 to COFFEE HOUSE PRESS, Minneapolis, Minnesota, to support the editing, design, printing, and marketing of three books by emerging writers based in New York City and Minnesota, and to provide support for author advances. The mission of Coffee House Press is to publish exciting, vital, and enduring authors of our time; to delight and inspire readers; to contribute to the cultural life of our community; and to enrich our literary heritage. It produces books that celebrate innovation in the craft of writing, the infinite possibilities of the imagination, and the many authentic voices of the American experience. Since 1984, Coffee House has published 52 first time authors, solidifying its commitment to discovery.
Literature

The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses

2010
Literature
New York City
General Program
$46,000
The COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES & PRESSES (CLMP), New York City, received a grant of $46,000 for the FACE OUT program, which provides publishers and emerging authors with the tools to work together successfully in order to market and promote each authors book to its greatest potential. CLMP supports and promotes noncommercial literary publishing to ensure that readers and writers are well served by a strong and vibrant literary culture. As a service and advocacy organization for independent literary publishers, CLMPs services and resources are designed to develop each members publishing capacity through increased marketing and organizational skills, while promoting communication and shared learning across the field The first year in the current two-year FACE OUT cycle focused on pre-publication marketing and publicity, and included technical assistance workshops and one-on-one meetings for publishers and their authors. Year two will focus on post-publication marketing activities and supporting emerging author/publisher relationships, including author tours and author-focused marketing initiatives. There will be workshops and evaluation sessions as well as a published monograph designed to share lessons learned.
Literature

Council on Foundations

2010
Misc
Other
General Program
$10,050
The COUNCIL ON FOUNDATIONS, Arlington, Virginia, received a grant of $10,550 in support of its 2010 program and as Jerome Foundations membership for the year. The Council is a national nonprofit association of approximately 2,000 community foundations, corporate grantmakers, independent foundations, family philanthropies, and global philanthropic entities. Its members commit to the principles of stewardship, accountability and transparency, diversity and inclusiveness, good governance, and respect for applicants. The Council's program encompasses leadership, networking, legal information, professional development, public policy, and staff support services.
Misc

Melanie Crean

2010
Film/Video & New Media
New York City
General Program
$7,000
EYEBEAM ART + TECHNOLOGY CENTER, New York City, acting as fiscal sponsor for independent artist MELANIE CREAN, received $7,000 in support of the development and exhibition of Creans new media project, The Shape of Change. Eyebeam is dedicated to supporting the creation and presentation of art works produced with digital technologies and demonstrating new media as a significant genre of cultural production; expanding the publics appreciation of new media art through public programs for all ages; improving artists access to digital tools; and researching and developing new technologies that catalyze the creation of these tools and artworks. Creans The Shape of Change is a series of projects that look at how speech acts bring about political change, investigating these acts for their ability to express desire, conflict, and the need for transformation. This social sculpture project explores the nature of change through dialogue, in the forms of art, conversation, and writing.
Film/Video & New Media