Past
Grantees

Filmmaker TERRI MYERS will travel for six days in Mississippi to become acquainted with the character of the state to strengthen a screenplay set in the region.

The Native Arts Circle, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a grant of $20,000 in support of two regranting programs for artists. The mission of the Circle is to educate the general public to better understand and appreciate Native American art and its related cultural value; and to support and promote artist development within the Native American community. Jerome Foundation has been supporting the Circle since 1990. In the recently completed year, Jerome funding was used to subsidize a Support Grant regranting program for artists. In 1995, the Circle will add to that an Artistic Production Grant program, toward which Jerome money will also be directed.

Sculptor ED ARCHIE NOISE CAT received a grant to travel for two weeks in Auckland, New Zealand, to attend a symposium of contemporary indigenous art.

Russell Packard, a teacher and musician, was awarded $3,706 to spend seven weeks in Amman, Jordan. There he'll study and perform at the Jerash Festival of Culture and the Arts at the National Music Conservatory.

SARAH PENMAN, a media producer, will travel to San Cristobal de Las Casas and Chiapas, Mexico, and Guatemala, for three months, to research, photograph and establish relationships with Mayan midwives to develop a documentary about their lives.

Performance Space 122, New York City, received a two-year grant of $29,000 to support a commissioning program for emerging performance artists in the 1995 and 1996 seasons. P.S. 122 is a performance laboratory committed to supporting the development of work by individual artists who create live art with an authentic vision. It is dedicated to finding, developing and bringing to the public's eye new artistic creations from a diversity of cultures, points of view, ages and sexual orientations. In 1994-95, Jerome-supported commissions enable P.S. 122 to support the creative processes of artists Eduardo Alegria, Salley May, Andrea Mills, David Newmann and Peggy Pettitt.

Filmmaker SUZAN PITT received a grant for 30 days of travel and study in New York City to work with composer John Zorn on an original soundtrack for her animated film Joy Street.

Esther Podemski received funding to produce House of The World, a documentary film focusing on the residues of everyday Jewish life in Poland following the catastrophic events of World War II. The film bears witness to the horrors of the War, and acts to reinscribe Jewish names in the records of a town that had nearly erased them.

A grant of $4,250 was awarded to Bharatanatyam choreographer, dancer and educator Ranee Ramsawamy to travel to India for a month. There she will join Twin Cities choreographer and tap dancer Joe Chvala to collect material and conduct research for a collaborative project based on "devadasi" or temple dances.