Past
Grantees

JUXTAPOSITION ARTS, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received $15,000 in support of commissions to emerging artists to create functional art as a part of the organizations building renovation. Juxtaposition offers fine arts programs to youth, provides opportunities for professional artists to develop work, and presents public art events for community audiences. Its mission is to nurture creativity and build self-confidence. Jerome funding was authorized for commissions to three emerging professional artists to create permanent installations in Juxtapositions new home at Emerson and West Broadway in North Minneapolis. The space will be transformed into a 2,200 square foot visual arts center with a working art studio, exhibition space, media center, offices and outdoor courtyard.

YAEL KANAREK was awarded a grant in support of World of Awe, a cross-media project based in the genre of the travelers tale. It explores the connections among storytelling, memory and technology.

Funding was awarded to ROSS KAUFFMAN for Born into Brothels, a documentary that follows the lives of children of prostitutes who live in the brothels of Calcutta's largest red-light district.

GLGN KAYIM, site-specific interdisciplinary performance artist/administrator, will travel to London for four weeks to experience site-specific artwork curated by Artangel, an independent curatorial group, and develop a dialogue with public art curator Cameron Cartier on issues related to site in public art.

Photographer STEPHANIE KAYS will travel to Chicago, Illinois, for four days to photograph one of her subjects for an ongoing project and to distribute slide packages and photographs to the Chicago galleries Bodybuilder and Sportsman, Standard, and Schneider. Kays has been making images of the same two women for six years as an ongoing documentary project. She will pursue exhibitions, expand her portfolio, and promote her work.

STUART KLIPPER, photographer, will travel to Rome, Italy, to photograph churches and antiquities. Klippers work is largely about placethe nature of place and placement in nature. His concerns cover topological considerations as well as cultural manifestations. Klipper has traveled to the worlds edges and outermost horizons and now wants to focus on centrality.

Jerome Directors awarded a grant to interdisciplinary artist SUE KOSMALSKI, Saint Paul, Minnesota, to learn how to become her own arts agent. Kosmalski will work with a coach to learn how to develop the skills and techniques required to effectively communicate her work and ideas to potential curators, presenting venues, publications, arts writers, and funders. She will obtain information and counsel from artists, presenters, and curators to learn more about funding and exhibition opportunities, work sample preparation, and professional relationship cultivation.

Interdisciplinary artist Sue Kosmalski, Saint Paul, Minnesota, was awarded funding to learn how to become her own arts agent. Kosmalski will work with a coach to learn how to develop the skills and techniques required to effectively communicate her work and ideas to potential curators, presenting venues, publications, arts writers, and funders. She will obtain information and counsel from artists, presenters, and curators to learn more about funding and exhibition opportunities, work sample preparation, and professional relationship cultivation.

Visual artist and graphic designer MALICHANSOUK KOUANCHAO will spend 25 days in Braunschweig, Germany, learning about new technologies in art and developing a collaboration with black hole sound acts, a consortium of artists, scientists, and technicians who have created a laboratory for audio/visual arts projects. She will collaborate on Home X, an interactive sound and video installation using materials collected from different neighborhoods and countries. Kouanchao seeks to expand her skills and to provide more complex visual, auditory, tactile, and temporal experiences for her audiences.

JEFF KRUEGER, photographer, will spend seven days at Emory University and the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta, Georgia, researching the locations of lynching trees. Kruegers Historic Trees Project, documents historic trees of the United States. Krueger considers lynching trees to be an essential part of his project and a powerful and tangible monument to race relations in the United States. He will research original documents in the hope of finding photos of lynching tree sites with recognizable surroundings and eyewitness accounts with specific descriptions. Hell then track those leads down with regional historical societies to determine if any of the trees still stand.

Choreographer DONALD LACOURSE and dancer ANDREA CONGER will spend 20 days in Novosibirsk, Russia, where they will attend The Siberian Experience seminar, the first of its kind to be open to the West. LaCourse is the Artistic Director of Ethnic Dance Theatre. Conger is a long-time dancer with the company and a scholar of Russian language, history, culture, and dance. They will take traditional dance classes taught by native teachers; see rare performances by village and performing groups native to the area; and socialize with the dancers, singers, and musicians of the region. They will also attend an international symposium of dance scholars. They will use this opportunity to collect information about specific dances that will be incorporated into Ethnic Dance Theatres repertoire.

CHRIS LARSON, St. Paul, MN, received a grant for The Trial (Untitled), a uniquely idiosyncratic installation that features a man attached to a machine that is powered by two horses.

ADAM LEVY, Minneapolis, MN, was awarded funding for 10,000 Years, a feature-length music-driven animated allegory about youth violence and international conflict.

NORA LIGORANO & MARSHALL REESE (previous recipients), received funding for Fiber Optic Video Tapestry, an experimental installation project comprised of a hand woven wall tapestry made from electronic image and data transmission materialsfiber optics, wires, and various sized LCD screens.

The Jerome Foundation approved a two-year grant of $88,000 for THE LOFT, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in support of the new Mentor Series. The Lofts mission is to foster a writing community, the artistic development of individual writers, and an audience for literature. The new Mentor Series combines two Loft programs, the original Mentor Series and the Creative Nonfiction Residency. Twelve emerging fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction writers will be competitively selected to work with six mentorsall noted national writersin seminars, readings, workshops, individual conferences, and social activities. The selected emerging writers will give public readings with the mentors.

Salsa vocalist and composer MAYA LOPEZ-SANTAMARIA will spend two weeks in San Antonio, Texas. She will travel to the Cultural Center of San Antonio to study mariachi singing under Ramon Vargas, a premier vocal master of the classic Mexican style, and regional music arrangement and production with Tejano artists Flaco Jimenez and Max Baca. She will also study Mexican-American folk art and culture. Lopez-Santamaria founded and sings with the Latin group Orquesta Sabor Tropical in the Twin Cities.

KRISTIN LUCAS was awarded a grant in support of The Electric Donut, an experimental single channel video and DVD installation based on visions of the future. Using family photographs, Super-8 films, and home videos, Lucas will construct personal futuristic visions.

MARTI LUFKIN, St. Paul, MN, received a grant to support He Aint Heavy, a personal documentary about her severely brain damaged brother and his impact on their family.

Directors authorized a grant of $8,000 to MA-YI THEATRE COMPANY, New York City, in support of commissions to emerging playwrights to develop new plays. Ma-Yi provides a home for Asian-American theater artists and is committed to the development of new Pan Asian-American texts that push the countries racial dialectics beyond the immediately obvious into a more nuanced examination of the human condition and the practical politics of ethnicity.

A two-year grant of $60,000 was awarded to MABOU MINES, New York City, in support of the Suite Resident Artists Program. The Mabou Mines company of artists has a distinguished history and deep expertise, which inform the Suite program. Emerging resident artists are given the resources to create new work in theater, dance, media, design, and music. The program also instills in these artists the desire to work over a period of time so as to encounter change, revision, rethinking, reworking, and the rigors of criticism from peers and Mabou Mines artistic directors.