Past
Grantees

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.

J MANDLE PERFORMANCE, Brooklyn, New York, received $12,500 in support of the development and production of PEDESTRIAN TRACES. Julia Mandle creates site-specific events that incorporate fashion design, architecture, furniture design, graphic design, dance, music, and performance art. PEDESTRIAN TRACES will be created in collaboration with urban designer Ariel Krasnow. It will investigate the desire lines of pedestrians, manifesting how they unwittingly give poetic substance to urban terrain. The piece will be sited in Brooklyn at the corner of Fulton Street and Flatbush Avenue and will reoccur throughout the day in sequences of 30 to 60 minutes with a large cast of costumed performers.

KENNETH D. MCCULLOUGH, a poet from Winona, will travel to St. Johns, Newfoundland, for ten days to revisit places and people from his childhood. McCullough intends to interview relatives, make contact with Newfoundland writers and scholars, research the history of Newfoundland, and give a public reading of his work. This trip will influence McCulloughs writing by providing him with deep meditations on place, the past, and family.

MEDIA ALLIANCE, New York City, supports, promotes, and advocates for independent film, video, audio, radio, and digital arts and artists. It received $23,000 in support of Independent Radio and Sound Art Fellowships, a regrant program that provides fellowships to artists working in sound or radio as an independent art form. All genres of sound art are eligible, but there is a preference for personal artistic works. An independent panel reviews fellowship applications and selects grant recipients.

A grant of $23,000 was authorized to MEET THE COMPOSER, New York City, in support of the participation of emerging composers from Minnesota and New York City in the Meet The Composer Fund. Meet The Composer fosters the creation, performance and recording of music by American composers and develops new audiences for their work. The Meet The Composer Fund provides grants for composers to be actively involved in the performances of their work, including performing, conducting, speaking with audiences, presenting workshops, giving interviews and coaching rehearsals. Composers at every stage of their careers are involved, writing in all stylesfolk, chamber, jazz and orchestral, from traditional to avant-garde.

Jerome Foundation Directors approved a $5,000 grant to MIDWAY, St. Paul, Minnesota, in support of the participation of emerging New York City and Minnesota artists in the 2002-03 exhibition season. Midway is a nonprofit alternative space that shows contemporary work by emerging artists, the majority from Minnesota and New York City. Exhibitions range in format from two-person shows to group exhibitions of four to nine artists.