Past
Grantees

TATIANA ORMAZA, administrator and poet, will travel to San Luis Obispo, California, for ten days to visit instructors, students, and administrators in the creative writing program at the California Men's Colony of the San Luis Obispo State Prison. Ormaza intends to gain insight into the program's development and operation with the intention of implementing a similar program in Minnesota correctional facilities. Ormaza will meet with Grady Hillman, who oversees training for a new federal initiative, Arts Programs for Young Offenders in Detention and Corrections, for mentorship.

Jerome Directors awarded a $20,000 grant to PATRICKS CABARET, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in support of the participation of emerging, creative artists in its core programming. The Cabaret supports artists in their growth and development and encourages artists of all experience levels to try new things and take risks. Core programming takes place on the second and third weekends of each month. Each evening includes six or seven works in progress, with a mix of artistic experience levels and arts disciplines. The audience is primed to expect the unexpected. Jerome support enables the Cabaret to pay fees to artists as they test new work.

A two-year grant of $85,000 was authorized for PERFORMANCE SPACE 122, New York City, in support of commissions for emerging creative artists. P.S. 122 is a multidisciplinary art center serving the New York City dance and performance community. Jerome Foundation has provided support to P.S. 122 since 1986 to underwrite a comprehensive commissioning program supplemented with rehearsal and workshop space, technical and administrative support, and performance opportunities. Each season, 15 to 20 artists are provided commissions ranging from $2,500 to $5,000, in addition to performance fees.

PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a grant of $8,000 in support of the development and production of works by emerging playwrights during the 2002 season of Pillsbury House Theatre. The Theaters mission is to create challenging theater to inspire choice, change and connection. Grant funds supported the development and production of Mama Mosaic's original script The B.I. Show, a multimedia performance piece that examines the multi-layered personality of identity (and society's tendency to polarize it) through storytelling, movement and poetry. Grant funds will also be used for readings of new scripts by emerging Minnesota and New York City playwrights, including Quiet as its Kept by Sonja Parks.

THE PLAYWRIGHTS CENTER, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received $21,000 in support of the Many Voices Program. The Centers mission is to fuel theater by providing services that support playwrights and playwriting. It is committed to nurturing artistic excellence in new visions of theater, fostering playwright initiative and leadership, practicing cultural pluralism, discovering emerging artists, advocating for playwrights and their work, connecting playwrights with audiences, and developing a community for new work. The Many Voices Program provides to emerging playwrights of color stipends, play development support, the mentorship of experienced playwrights, participation in roundtable discussions, and opportunities to take professional classes at the Center. An independent selection panel of theater professionals selects eight Many Voices playwrights per year to participate in the Program.

ROHAN PRESTON, poet and critic, will travel to St. Mary, Jamaica, for 18 days to conduct research in order to complete a thematic book of poetry on his family, which he has been working on for the past four years. Preston will immerse himself in the culture that he left as a child. His poems capture memories that are fading from his recollection. This trip will refresh that understanding and allow him to test the truth and accuracy of his poems.

JOANNA RAWSON, poet, will spend three weeks in Spain researching, writing about, and traveling along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, a migration route in northern Spain, to develop a series of poems set in that area. She has been working on a book of poems dealing with migration and landscape. She has traveled along several historic migration routes in the United States and is now ready to expand her work to other countries. The Camino de Santiago de Compostela has existed for more than a millenniumfirst as a migration route for animals, then as a Roman trading route, but most importantly as a divine pilgrimage for millions of Europeans and Africans.

RED EYE COLLABORATION, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $57,000 in support of two programs serving emerging artists, Isolated Acts and Works-In-Progress. The first is a multidisciplinary festival of new work, in which independent artists explore alternative performance forms and ideas. Red Eye selects emerging early career artists who are engaged in discovering and defining their individual visions. This is not only an opportunity to develop and produce work, but an engagement of the Red Eye company with these developing artists. The second program is geared toward emerging artists who are investigating new directions and emphasizes the developmental process as it plays out on the stage. There are structured feedback sessions throughout the developmental and rehearsal period. An experimental theater company, Red Eye Collaboration is noted for its use of multimedia elements and work that explores the theatrical vanguard.

Funding was awarded to STEFAN ROLOFF in support of The Red Orchestra, an impressionistic documentary about the experiences of one of the largest Nazi resistance groups, embedded in a visual language where survivor and eyewitness accounts give close-up views.

JOAN ROTHFUSS, biographer and museum curator, will spend eight days in New York conducting interviews for a biography of avant-garde cellist and performer Charlotte Moorman. Moorman was a Fluxus performer and producer of avant-garde music festivals. Rothfuss is a curator at the Walker Art Center and has written extensively on the work and lives of artists. She will focus on interviews with the cellists family, friends, and colleagues and undertake an extended study of Moormans papers.

ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM, New York City, received a two-year grant of $48,000 in support of programs serving emerging composers from New York City and Minnesota. Roulette presents over 50 concerts each year, paying fees to composers; commissioning new work; providing publicity, production and recording facilities; and managing recording and distribution programs. Roulettes concert series of experimental and adventurous music provides opportunities for composers to perform their work for live audiences and for audiences to learn about new directions in music. A large percentage of Roulettes schedule is dedicated to the work of emerging composers. Each season includes a variety of musical styles, mixing new jazz, world music, experimental rock, improvisation, multimedia and interdisciplinary work, computer music, new technologies and instrument builders.

Video artist DAVE RYAN, Northfield, will spend five days in New York at the New York Video Festival seeing the latest video work, staying current with new developments and networking with artists and curators. This will expand his connections to the media community and push him as an individual and an artist.

KURT SCHULZ, painter, will spend one week in Kassel, Germany, attending Documenta XI, an international exhibition, and reconnecting with his mentor, Reinhard Voigt. This trip will allow him to maintain a relationship with his mentor, establish valuable contacts, and gain a perspective on work outside of the United States, particularly by German artists.

The JAMES SEWELL BALLET, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received $11,600 in support of the Ballet Works Program for Minnesota and New York City emerging choreographers. The James Sewell Ballet creates and performs a diverse repertoire, based in the ballet idiom, with the aim of broadening audience access to dance and to advancing the art form. Two emerging choreographers will be selected for the 2002-03 Ballet Works Program and will participate in an intensive workshop period during which two new dances will be developed. One of the choreographers will be company member Justin Leaf. The second will be selected from applicants responding to an open call.

JAMES SEWELL BALLET, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a grant of $9,400 in support of the Ballet Works Project. The company creates and performs a diverse and appealing repertoire based in the ballet idiom in an effort to broaden audience access to dance and to advance the art form. The Ballet Works Project allows the company to support workshops for emerging choreographers to work on new dance ideas. Jerome funding will support the choreographic explorations of Stphane Andr and Benjamin Johnson.

SMACK MELLON STUDIOS, Brooklyn, New York, received a two-year grant of $28,000 in support of the participation of emerging artists in exhibitions in the 2002 and 2003 seasons. Located in D.U.M.B.O., Smack Mellon nurtures and supports emerging and mid-career artists by providing access to technology, studio space, and exhibition space necessary for the realization of ambitious multidisciplinary projects. Smack Mellon creates an environment where artists work together, experiment, and share ideas. It measures an exhibitions success by the quality of the work displayed, the critical and public response received, and the critique and commitment of the exhibiting artists.

KIT-YIN SNYDER received funding for Double Exposure, a video project of poetically inspired first-person reflections and observations examining the filmmakers passage from young Chinese girl to middle-aged Chinese-American woman.

The Jerome Foundation Board approved a $20,000 grant for NO NAME EXHIBITIONS @ THE SOAP FACTORY, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in support of the participation of emerging artists in the 2002 exhibition season. No Name provides a unique showcase for sculpture, performance, and installation art, as well as traditional gallery space for two-dimensional work. No Name is dedicated to supporting and exhibiting the work of emerging visual artists and enhancing the publics understanding and appreciation of their artistic expression. Artists are selected through an open submission and panel/curatorial review process.

SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK, Long Island City, New York, received a two-year grant of $40,000 for the Emerging Artist Fellowship Program. Socrates supports the creation and exhibition of large-scale sculpture on four and a half acres of grass, rocks and trees along the shore in Long Island City. The guiding principle is to encourage creative interaction among artists, their art and the community. The Outdoor Studio Program allows artists to create large-scale projects on site. The Park provides fellowships to emerging artists who are given extended residencies in the Outdoor Studio and grants to create new works. Socrates will provide 18 emerging artists with Fellowships and Residencies over the two years of this request.

The SOUTHERN THEATER, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $60,000 in support of the creation and production of new works by emerging artists. The Southern presents artists who are developing new work that reflects personal artistic growth or that moves their forms in new directions with new aesthetic challenges. In the coming year, Jerome funding will support a new commissioning program for emerging artists, selected by the Southerns artistic director. In the first year of the program, emphasis will be placed on emerging choreographers.