Grantees

$3,912,365

Total Grants
in 2001

$2,914,865

Cultural Grants
in 2001

121

Cultural Grants
in 2001

2001 Cultural Grants

Alonzo King's LINES Ballet

San Francisco, California


$20,000

to enable a composer and musicians from Poland to travel to the United States to collaborate on a project to create a new performance piece for the company to be premiered in fall 2002.

American Dance Festival

Durham, North Carolina


$23,600

to enable Russian dancers and choreographers to participate in ADF in summer 2001.

American Friends of the Russian Country Estate

Washington, D.C.


$2,500

to enable a representative of the Yasnaya Polyana Estate to attend a conference on marketing and cultural tourism in Miami and to develop contacts in the cultural tourism industry in Newport, Rhode Island, in summer 2001.

American Museum of Natural History

New York, New York


$15,000

to support curatorial travel in connection with the showing in 2001 in Siberia and the Russian Far East of the photography exhibition Drawing Shadows to Stone.

American Museum of the Moving Image

Astoria, New York


$11,500

to enable women filmmakers from the Czech Republic, Georgia, and Hungary to participate in the Eastern European Women Filmmakers Series in New York in spring 2002.

American Repertory Theatre

Cambridge, Massachusetts


$5,000

to support the international travel and related expenses of theater professionals from Budapest participating in a production of Mother Courage at ART in winter 2001.

American Repertory Theatre

Cambridge, Massachusetts


$50,000

to support a theater management program in 2002-2003 for Russian arts administration students at the American Repertory Theatre Institute and at the Moscow Art Theatre Institute.

American Russian Young Artists Orchestra

New York, New York


$75,000

to enable musicians from Russia and the United States to participate in ARYO’s World Tour 2002 and related programs involving residencies, scholarships, and performances in both countries.

apexart

New York, New York


$30,000

to enable American artists to participate in a planned exhibition entitled Vertigo in Poland.

APT Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


$20,000

to enable artists and curators from Eastern and Central Europe to participate in (in)form + EASTERN EUROPE! held in connection with the 19th International Sculpture Conference in Pittsburgh in summer 2001.

Arcady Music Society

Bar Harbor, Maine


$20,000

to enable the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin from Moscow to participate in the 22nd Annual Arcady Summer Music Festival in Maine in 2002.

Arena Stage

Washington, D.C.


$10,000

to enable Hungarian artists to participate in a residency program and to collaborate with Arena Stage on a joint production of A Streetcar Named Desire in summer 2001.

ART/OMI

New York, New York


$3,500

to support American participation in the artist residency program at Cimelice Castle in the Czech Republic in 2001.

Arts International

New York, New York


$11,000

to enable an artist from Croatia to participate in the International Studio Program at P.S.1 in 2001.

Arts Midwest

Minneapolis, Minnesota


$25,000

to support international travel in 2001-2004 by curators from the United States and Central Europe collaborating on the exhibition The View From Here: Recent Pictures From Central Europe and the American Midwest.

Bang on a Can

New York, New York


$10,000

to enable members of the Ivo Papasov Orchestra from Bulgaria to participate in the BAM Next Wave Festival in fall 2001.

Bond Street Theatre Coalition

New York, New York


$20,000

to enable members of the company to travel to Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia in summer 2001 to collaborate with Theatre Tsvete from Sofia on a project entitled Performance in Response to Crisis: Serbia.

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Boston, Massachusetts


$25,000

to enable musicians from Central and Eastern Europe to participate in the professional training program at the Tanglewood Music Center in summer 2001.

Boston University School of the Arts

Boston, Massachusetts


$30,000

to enable musicians, composers, and music specialists from St. Petersburg to travel to the United States in fall 2001 as participants in the Educational Bridge Project and to enable two musicians from Russia to attend the Tanglewood Music Center in summer 2001.

Boston University School of the Arts

Boston, Massachusetts


$38,500

to support the exchange of Russian and American musicians in 2002 in connection with the Educational Bridge Project conducted jointly by Boston University and the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Brooklyn, New York


$20,000

to support international travel by filmmakers, critics, and curators from Eastern and Central Europe in connection with a program of films from the region at BAMcinematék in 2002.

Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation

New York, New York


$25,000

to enable artists from Russia to participate in a multi-media project entitled Russian Madness at the Watermill Center in Southampton, New York, in summer 2001.

Catholic University of America

Washington, D.C.


$25,000

to enable faculty members and advanced graduate students from the School of Architecture and Planning at CUA to participate in the development of a Cultural Resource Management Strategy for a historic preservation site in Koper, Slovenia, in summer 2001.

CEC International Partners

New York, New York


$40,000

to support international travel and related expenses of Russian and American artists and curators participating in exchanges associated with the VisArt project in 2001 and 2002.

CEC International Partners

New York, New York


$50,000

to provide continued support for the international travel and related expenses of participants in activities of the Parallel Fund for 2003, a program undertaken in collaboration with the Open Society Institute-St. Petersburg to promote cultural exchanges associated with St. Petersburg’s tercentenary.

CEC International Partners

New York, New York


$125,000

to provide continued support for ArtsLink, an exchange program for artists and arts administrators from the Former Soviet Union, Eastern and Central Europe, and the United States.

CEC International Partners

New York, New York


$4,500

to enable representatives of the Civil Society Development Foundation in Budapest to meet with colleagues in the United States in connection with the development of an arts management training program in Hungary.

CEC International Partners

New York, New York


$17,000

to enable curators and artists from the United States to participate in a lecture series on art and technology in connection with an exhibition entitled EVO 1 in Moscow in fall 2001.

CEC International Partners

New York, New York


$6,000

to enable the director of the New York Percent for Art program to meet with artists, arts administrators, and curators in Ljubljana, Sarajevo, and Belgrade in fall 2001.

CEC International Partners

New York, New York


$55,000

to support the international travel and related expenses of American cultural specialists participating in a series of arts management seminars entitled Theater Management in the Russian Regions in 2002.

CEC International Partners

New York, New York


$10,000

to support international travel and related expenses of American participants in the Golden Mask Festival in Moscow in spring 2001.

Center for International Theatre Development

Baltimore, Maryland


$40,000

to support the international exchange component of the Eastern and Central European Theater Initiative in 2001.

Center for Puppetry Arts

Atlanta, Georgia


$1,000

to enable the center’s director of education to participate in the Pierrot Festival 2001 in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, in fall 2001.

Center for the Study of Ancient Territories

Austin, Texas


$25,000

to enable American archaeologists and architectural specialists to travel to Ukraine and to enable public officials from Sevastopol to travel to the United States in 2001 in connection with the development of the archaeological preserve of Tauric Chersonesos in Crimea.

Collision Theory

Brooklyn, New York


$6,500

to support international travel and related expenses associated with the company’s collaboration with a dramaturg from Budapest.

Colorado Ballet

Denver, Colorado


$25,000

to support international travel and related expenses of a dance and choreography exchange program between the Colorado Ballet and the School of Contemporary Dance in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in fall 2002.

Creative Connections

Ridgefield, Connecticut


$7,000

to enable dance professionals from St. Petersburg to travel to the United States as participants in the Russian-U.S. Youth Exchange Program in fall 2002.

Dance Theater Workshop

New York, New York


$95,000

to enable artists and arts managers from Eastern and Central Europe and the United States to participate in artists’ residencies, performances, collaborative projects, and international festivals in 2002 in connection with DTW’s East/Central Europe Cultural Partnerships Program.

David Parker & The Bang Group

New York, New York


$3,500

to support international travel and related expenses associated with the company’s dance performances and workshops in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia as part of their Beatification Tour of Eastern Europe in fall 2001.

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company

Dayton, Ohio


$51,000

to enable members of DCDC to attend dance festivals, conduct master classes and workshops, and to provide arts management training in Russia, Bosnia, and Croatia in 2002.

Double Edge Theatre

Ashfield, Massachusetts


$40,000

to support the exchange of theater artists from the United States and East and Central Europe in 2001 in connection with the International Consortium of Theatre Practices.

Eiko + Koma

New York, New York


$20,000

to enable Eiko + Koma to perform and give workshops at dance festivals in Poland in summer 2001.

Eiko + Koma

New York, New York


$40,000

to enable the dance company to present The Caravan Project in Poland and the Czech Republic in summer 2002.

Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center

New York, New York


$15,000

to enable American music specialists to travel to Moscow in 2001 in connection with the Special Music Schools Exchange Program.

Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

Waterford, Connecticut


$25,000

to enable American theater artists and specialists to participate in a musical theater exchange program in St. Petersburg entitled Making Musicals Together in spring 2001.

Faberge Arts Foundation

Washington, D.C.


$25,000

to support American participation in New Uses for Old Buildings: A Russian-American Workshop on Historic Restoration in St. Petersburg in summer 2001.

FotoFest International

Houston, Texas


$30,000

to enable curators and photography specialists from Russia and Central Europe to participate in FotoFest and related events in spring 2002.

Foundation for a Civil Society

New York, New York


$55,325

to provide continued support of the Chalupecky and Oscar Cepan award programs which include three-month artist residencies in Sausalito, California, for the recipients.

Foundation for a Civil Society

New York, New York


$40,000

to enable American dance specialists to participate in a program at the Ballet of the National Theatre in Prague entitled Americana II in fall 2001.

Foundation for a Civil Society

New York, New York


$30,000

to support curatorial travel between the United States and the Czech Republic in 2002 in connection with the exhibition Ladislav Sutnar Design: Prague-New York being organized by the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague.

Foundation for International Arts and Education

Bethesda, Maryland


$40,000

to support international travel and related expenses in 2001 in connection with exhibition and documentation projects organized in collaboration with museums and cultural institutions in Russia and the United States.

Foundation for Jewish Community

New York, New York


$10,000

to support participation by American musicians in the Jewish Cultural Festival in Krakow in summer 2001.

Fund for Arts and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe

McLean, Virginia


$20,000

to support American and Russian participation in a seminar entitled Options for Museum Design held in Nizhni Novgorod in 2001.

Fund for Arts and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe

McLean, Virginia


$5,000

to support American participation in a conference entitled Excavating the Future: An Archeology and Future of Moving Pictures in Prague in fall 2001.

Fund for Arts and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe

McLean, Virginia


$35,000

to support international travel and related expenses associated with American participation in a series of museum training programs in Russia in 2002.

Give2Asia

San Francisco, California


$25,000

to support the Mongolian-American exchange component in 2001 and 2002 of a project to develop an interpretive program at the Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts and to formulate plans for a new national art gallery in Ulaanbaatar.

GOH Productions

New York, New York


$20,000

to enable dance professionals from the United States to give workshops and master classes in a residency program for Eastern and Central European choreographers at the Polli Talu Arts Center in Estonia in fall 2001.

GOH Productions

New York, New York


$25,000

to enable American dancers, critics, and arts administrators to attend the VIII Annual International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Bytom and to visit other cities in Poland in summer 2001.

GOH Productions

New York, New York


$27,050

to enable American presenters and performing arts professionals to visit Uzbekistan in 2002 to discuss with members of the Ilkhom Theater Company in Tashkent the possibility of organizing a festival of Uzbek culture in the United States.

GOH Productions

New York, New York


$20,000

to enable members of the Silesian Dance Theatre in Bytom, Poland, to travel to the United States for performances, workshops, and residencies in fall and winter 2001.

GOH Productions

New York, New York


$40,000

to enable arts presenters from the United States to survey contemporary performing arts activities in Poland in spring 2002.

Hand Print Workshop International

Alexandria, Virginia


$20,000

to enable artists from Russia and Georgia to participate in residencies at HPWI in 2001 and 2002 and to support travel to Russia in 2001 by the director of HPWI and an artist from the United States.

House of Dance

New York, New York


$2,060

to enable a choreographer from the United States to participate in a production of King Lear in Istria, Croatia, in summer 2001.

Houston International Film Festival

Houston, Texas


$1,000

to enable a filmmaker from St. Petersburg to participate in the Festival in spring 2001.

International Center of Photography

New York, New York


$7,000

to enable the director of the Hungarian House of Photography in Budapest to visit museums, archives, and collections of photography in the United States in spring 2001.

International Council on Monuments and Sites

Washington, D.C


$20,000

to enable historic preservation specialists from Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia, and the United States to participate in exchanges conducted as part of the US/ICOMOS International Summer Intern Program in 2001.

International House

New York, New York


$40,000

to enable artists from Eastern and Central Europe to participate in a residency program at International House in 2002-2003.

International Studio and Curatorial Program

New York, New York


$20,000

to enable an artist from the Czech Republic and a curator from Poland to be in residence at ISCP in 2001 and 2002.

International Studio and Curatorial Program

New York, New York


$20,000

to enable curators from Bulgaria and Ukraine to participate in three-month residencies at ISCP in spring 2002.

Isadora Duncan International Institute

New York, New York


$6,000

to enable American dance specialists to participate in workshops, lectures, and performances in Russia in collaboration with Klassika-Moderna in St. Petersburg in spring 2002.

The Jewish Museum

New York, New York


$6,000

to support international travel and related expenses in 2002 associated with curatorial research in Russia for the Moscow State Jewish Theater Exhibition.

Kadmus Theater Studio

Bennington, Vermont


$20,000

to enable the company to perform and participate in workshops at the Theatre Confrontations Festival in Lublin, Poland, in fall 2002.

Keep the Country Dancing

Sloatsburg, New York


$20,000

to support American participation in Tap Parade 2002, the Fifth International Tap Festival and Workshops in Moscow and St. Petersburg in spring 2002.

La MaMa E.T.C.

New York, New York


$47,500

to enable the dance company Betontanc from Ljubljana to perform Midnight Meat Flight at La MaMa Umbria in summer 2001 ($4,000); to enable theater specialists and members of the Center for Cultural Decontamination in Belgrade to travel to the United States in 2002 in connection with a performance project entitled Indifference ($11,000); and to enable the Great Jones Repertory Co. from New York to perform Seven Against Thebes and give workshops in Croatia, Romania, and Yugoslavia in summer 2001 ($32,500).

Link Vostok

Minneapolis, Minnesota.


$35,000

to enable American dancers and choreographers to participate in the Fifth International Festival of Movement and Dance on the Volga in Yaroslavl in summer 2002.

Location One

New York, New York


$28,000

to support residencies of artists from Eastern and Central Europe as part of the Go_Home Project in 2001-2002 ($12,000); and to enable an artist from Poland to participate in the International Residency Program at Location One in spring 2002 ($16,000).

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles, California


$12,500

to enable scholars and cultural historians from Central Europe to attend two conferences in spring 2002 held in connection with the exhibition in Los Angeles entitled Central European Avant Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930.

Mabou Mines

New York, New York


$40,000

to enable members of the company to travel to the Czech Republic to present Animal Magnetism at the Divaldo International Theater Festival in Plsen in fall 2001.

Maryland Institute, College of Art

Baltimore, Maryland


$19,200

to support international travel and related expenses in fall 2001 associated with the development, in collaboration with institutions in Poland, Russia, and the Czech Republic, of an Eastern European Cultural Exchange program for faculty members and students.

Meredith Monk/The House Foundation

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$2,300

New York, New York

Milwaukee Art Museum

Milwaukee, Wisconsin


$25,000

to support international travel in 2002 by Polish and American museum professionals in connection with the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci and The Splendor of Poland at the museum in spring 2002 and at other museums in the United States in 2002-2003.

Mobius

Boston, Massachusetts


$30,000

to enable members of Mobius to travel to Zadar, Croatia, in summer 2001, and to enable artists from Croatia to travel to Boston in 2002 in connection with a project entitled Digging the Channel/Mediating the Channel.

Moebius Ensemble

New York, New York


$40,000

to enable members of the Ensemble to give a series of concerts, lectures, and master classes in Eastern and Central Europe in 2001-2002 and to enable composers from the region to travel to the United States in 2002.

Mongol-American Cultural Association

New Brunswick, New Jersey


$50,000

to enable musicians, dancers, and cultural representatives from Mongolia to participate in the Festival of Mongolia in New York in spring and summer 2001.

Mostar Fund

New York, New York


$14,400

to enable historic preservation specialists from the United States to attend the Mostar 2004 Workshop and Symposium in Bosnia in summer 2001.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Houston, Texas


$25,000

to support a curatorial exchange program between the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and the MFAH in 2002.

The Museum of Modern Art

New York, New York


$60,000

to support an exchange of curators and museum specialists between MoMA and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow in 2001 ($30,000); and to enable the former director of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Warsaw to conduct curatorial research in the United States as a visiting scholar at MoMA in 2001-2002 ($30,000).

MusicaRussia Foundation

New York, New York


$22,080

to enable a singer from the Bolshoi Theatre to participate in the Young Artists Program at the Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, New York, in summer 2001 ($13,580); and to support international travel and related expenses of Russian and American participants in the Conductors Exchange Project in 2002 ($8,500).

National Museum of Women in the Arts

Washington, D.C.


$40,000

to enable curators and scholars from Russia to participate in a symposium to be held in connection with the exhibitionWomen and the Hermitage: Artists, Patrons, and the Russian Imperial Court, 1762-1867 at NMWA in 2003.

New York Foundation for the Arts

New York, New York


$25,000

to support American participation in public programming and curatorial travel in 2001 associated with the exhibition Louise Bourgeois at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.

New York Theatre Workshop

New York, New York


$1,000

to enable a dramaturg from Yugoslavia to travel to New York in connection with a public reading of her play Family Stories: Belgrade in fall 2001.

New York University, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center

New York, New York


$4,450

to enable a specialist from the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, to participate in a public discussion organized in connection with the exhibition Dreams and Disillusion: Karel Teige and the Czech Avant-Garde at the Grey Art Gallery in May 2001.

Northeast Document Conservation Center

Andover, Massachusetts


$22,000

to enable conservators from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava to visit NEDCC and other conservation laboratories in the United States in fall 2001.

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

Long Island City, New York


$2,000

to support Bulgarian participation in the Special Projects Program at P.S. 1 in May 2001.

Performance Space 122

New York, New York


$1,000

to provide support to enable the director of P.S.122 to attend the Golden Mask Festival in Moscow in spring 2001.

PHILADANCO

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


$20,000

to enable the company to perform and give workshops in connection with the VIII Annual International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Bytom, Poland, and to travel to Krakow and Poznan in summer 2001.

Philadelphia Fringe Festival

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


$17,000

to enable Moving House Theatre Company from Budapest to present The Cherry Orchard at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in 2001.

Pig Iron Theatre Company

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


$20,000

to enable the company to participate in the Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Romania in spring 2001 and in the Theatre Confrontations Festival in Lublin, Poland, in fall 2001.

Portland Center Stage

Portland, Oregon


$30,000

to enable theater professionals from Hungary to stage a production of The Merchant of Venice at Portland Center Stage and at New York Theatre Workshop in 2001 and 2002.

Rhizome.org

New York, New York


$2,500

to support American participation in the Arts Servers Unlimited 2 Conference in Labin, Croatia, in fall 2001.

Riverside Ensemble

Albuquerque, New Mexico


$15,000

to enable the Ensemble to perform Ghosts at the Theatre Confrontations Festival in Lublin, Poland, in fall 2001.

Russian Arts Foundation

Walnut Creek, California


$40,000

to enable conductors from the United States to travel to Russia to hold workshops, rehearsals, and performances with the Russian National Orchestra as part of the Cultural Allies project.

Salzburg Seminar

Middlebury, Vermont


$11,500

to enable Eastern and Central European museum specialists to participate in a conference entitled Museums of the 21st Century in Salzburg, Austria, in spring 2001.

Sandglass Theater

Putney, Vermont


$6,650

to enable the Credo Theatre from Bulgaria to participate in the World Festival of Puppets in Brattleboro, Vermont, in fall 2001.

School of Hard Knocks

New York, New York


$25,000

to support the collaboration in 2002 between members of SOHK and performers from Bosnia on a new performance piece entitled PI=3.14.

Seattle Chamber Players

Seattle, Washington


$16,000

to enable Russian composers, musicians, and musicologists to participate in Icebreaker: Voices from New Russia, a festival and symposium of contemporary Russian music in Seattle in 2002.

Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music

Minneapolis, Minnesota


$30,000

to enable choruses from Russia and Croatia and composers from Poland and Hungary to participate in the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music in Minneapolis in summer 2002.

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

Washington, D.C.


$35,000

to enable artists and performers from Mongolia to participate in The Silk Road, the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C.

Smithsonian Institution, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

New York, New York


$1,000

to enable the chief curator of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague to conduct research in the United States in 2001 in connection with a planned exhibition of the works of Czech-American designer Ladislav Sutnar.

SoundArt Foundation

Philmont, New York


$11,750

to enable the Downtown Ensemble to participate in a music project in Tbilisi entitled Eight Thrushes in Georgia in fall 2001.

Sundance Institute Theater Program

Beverly Hills, California


$15,000

to enable film specialists from the United States to participate in the Sundance Central European Screenwriters Lab in the Czech Republic in fall 2001.

Tamarind Institute

Albuquerque, New Mexico


$50,000

to enable printmakers and master printers from the United States to travel to the former Yugoslavia in 2001 and to enable artists from the region to participate in a residency program at Tamarind in 2002 in an exchange project entitled Connections.

Theater by the Blind

New York, New York


$5,000

to enable members of the company to participate in the 2nd International Blind and Visually Impaired Theatre Festival in Zagreb, Croatia, in fall 2001.

Tulane University

New Orleans, Louisiana


$7,500

to support international travel and related expenses in 2001 in connection with the photographic documentation project and exhibition entitled Preservation of the Architectural Heritage of the Russian North organized in collaboration with the State Museum of Architecture in Moscow.

University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa


$25,000

to enable a playwright from Russia and from Bosnia-Herzegovina to participate in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2002.

Vermont Studio Center

New York, New York


$35,000

to support participation by artists from Eastern and Central Europe in the residency program at VSC in 2002-2003.

WaxFactory

New York, New York


$40,000

to enable members of the company to give performances and workshops in collaboration with theater professionals in Croatia in 2001-2002.

Western Folklife Center

Elko, Nevada


$8,000

to enable folklore specialists and a photographer from the United States to travel to Mongolia in summer 2001 to finalize plans for the Mongolian Herdmans Cowboy Cultural Exchange project scheduled for winter 2002.

Women Make Movies

New York, New York


$5,000

to support the international travel component in 2001 of a collaborative project organized by artists in Bosnia and the United States entitled Chronicles: A Video and Website.

World Music Institute

New York, New York


$25,000

to enable Roma musicians and dancers from Macedonia and Romania to give performances and workshops in the United States in 2001 in connection with a project entitled The Gypsy Caravan II.

Yara Arts Group

New York, New York


$25,000

to enable members of the company to travel to Russia to develop and perform a collaborative theater piece entitled Circle at the Festival of Mongolian Speaking Theatres in Ulan Ude in summer 2001.