NEA 2000 FIRST ROUND GRANTS.

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced its first major round of grants for the 2001 fiscal year. Eight hundred and twenty-five new grants were awarded, totaling $20,422,500--constituting 24% of the grant budget for the year. The NEA was allotted a budget of $105 million for the FY 2001--increasing seven million dollars over last year's budget, the NEA's first increase since 1992--$87 million of this total figure allotted as grant monies. Grants will be distributed through two major categories of Grants to Organizations--Creativity and Organizational Capacity and Leadership Initiatives and Literature Fellowships. Creativity awards comprise the largest grant distribution, with 718 grants totaling $16,355,500; 60 Organizational Capacity grants totaling $2,272,000; and seven Leadership Grants totaling $1,045,000. Grants designated as "multi-state" in the project description have a broad reach, impacting audiences in many communities--these projects represent $7,530,500 of the grant funds. All gra nts to organizations must be matched at least dollar for dollar with non-federal funds.

The NEA awards grants to non-profit organizations in the following five areas: Creativity, Organizational Capacity, Access, Education and Heritage/Preservation. Grant awards are based on artistic excellence and merit, the proposed project's impact and the applicant's ability to carry out the project. State and regional art agencies are (by Congressional mandate) allotted 40% of the NEA's grantmaking funds to broaden access to the alt in all states.

What follows are grants that we believe will be of interest to Afterimage readers, culled from the Media Alt, Multidisciplinary, Museums and Visual Alt categories.

MEDIA ARTS

American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY $25,000

To support three film retrospectives: The Cutter's Way: The Art and Craft of Film Editing; Shadow Play: Early Film and the Avant Garde; and The Lubitsch Touch. Over 100 films will be presented to an estimated audience of over 5000 people.

Ancestral Films, Inc. (Consortium), Houston, TX $5000

To support a consortium project, The Films of Gordon Parks: Retrospective of a Living Legend. This curated series will recognize Parks for his artistic achievements. Project partners are the Museum of Fine Alt Houston and Project Row Houses.

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI $15,000

To support the 39th Ann Arbor Film Festival and its national tour. Over 100 films will be presented to an audience of over 21,000 people in Michigan and the states to which the festival tours. (Multi-state)

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Film Center), Chicago, IL $30,000

To support a curated film series titled Bridging the Culture Gap Through Cinema. This multifaceted project will showcase work by American independent filmmakers and international directors.

Asian CineVision, Inc., New York, NY $20,000

To support the 2001 Asian American International Film Festival and its national tour. After its run in New York, the festival will travel to 10 sites including those in Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Texas and Pennsylvania. (Multi-state)

Asian Media Access, Minneapolis, MN $7500

To support the curated film series Generation Y: The Impact of the 1997 Hong Kong-China Reunification on Chinese Youth. Films will be presented to gain insight on what the reunification means to the youth of Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.

Austin Film Society, Austin, TX $30,000

To support the exhibition of films and videos, free of charge, to members of the Austin community. The Free Cinema Project will present these films and videos in a historical and cultural context while fostering an understanding and appreciation for cinema as an art form.

Berks Filmmakers, Inc., Reading, PA $10,000

To support the exhibition of several curated film and video series. Programs will include in-person presentations, avantgarde cinema, documentary and animation work and screenings by artists from the region.

Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL $15,000

To support the curated film series Kino Eye Cinema and the presentation of the Onion City Film Festival. Kino Eye Cinema places special emphasis on documentary and experimental films and videos; the Onion City Film Festival is dedicated to exhibiting experimental work.

Cine Accion, San Francisco, CA $10,000

To support the 2002 Cine Latino Film Festival. The festival attracts over 5000 people and is the only West Coast venue to present work by and about Latinos.

Cinema Arts Centre (New Community Cinema Club, Inc.), Huntington, NY $10,000

To support Cinema of Diversity, three weekend-long film festivals. Each festival will be devoted to a different theme: the International Women's Film and Video Festival, the Festival of Films from the People's Republic of China and the Huntington International Independent Film Festival.

Cleveland Film Society, Cleveland, OH $25,000

To support the 25th annual Cleveland International Film Festival including the 4th annual Midwest Independent Filmmakers Conference. Held in the spring, the event presents current work from around the world and complements it with educational programs to increase the audience's understanding and appreciation for the art form.

EBS Productions, Inc., San Francisco, CA $15,000

To support the 2001 International Film Financing Conference. This annual event was established to encourage collaborations between American producers and international film production entities.

Experimental Television Center, Ltd., Newark Valley, NY $10,000

To support a year-long residency program for 45-50 media artists from throughout the U.S. The Experimental Television Center provides film and video artists access to sophisticated production facilities.

Facets Multimedia, Inc., Chicago, IL $60,000

To support the annual Chicago International Children's Film Festival and related media arts programs for children. Activities include animation workshops, a media alt camp, media literacy courses, special exhibitions of films for children throughout the year, curriculum development and an expansion of Facet's Web site.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Bruno Films), San Francisco, CA $60,000

To support the production of an experimental documentary film by Ellen Bruno on aging, sickness and death. Skin and Bones will be a meditation on the impermanence of life. (Multi-state)

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Xochitl Films), San Francisco, CA $60,000

To support the postproduction costs for an experimental documentary film by Lourdes Portillo. Senorita Extraviada will explore the untold story of the continuing serial murders of young women in the U.S.-Mexican border town of Juarez. (Multi-state)

Film Arts Foundation (Consortium), San Francisco, CA $60,000

To support a consortium project in which five media alt organizations, all housed in the same building, will share resources, staff and facilities. The Ninth Street Media Alt consortium, already viewed as a national model of partnership, will formalize its processes to include joint decision-making, governance and program delivery.

Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA $60,000

To support Direct the Future, an initiative that will provide filmmakers with equipment to create new work. Film Alt Foundation (FAF) has, for 24 years, offered media makers traditional 16mm film production tools. As part of Direct the Future, FAF will expand into the digital realm to complement its ongoing activities.

Film Forum (Moving Image, Inc.), New York, NY $60,000

To support the New York City theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign films. Film Forum is devoted to bringing a broad array of the highest quality new work by young and emerging artists, as well as more established figures, to a large and diverse general public.

Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, NY $40,000

To support two curated film series. Cinemas/Societies in Transition: The Politics and Practice of National Self-definition will feature German film from 1945-1962 and Chinese film from 1945-1965. A retrospective of the comedic filmmaker Leo McCary will also be presented.

Four Oaks Foundation (on behalf of DocuClub), New York, NY $10,000

To support the exhibition of documentary films. DocuClub's mission is to aid filmmakers in the making of their documentaries by providing a supportive community to screen their films, provide feedback and assist in the completion and distribution of the work.

Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater, Inc., Lincoln, NE $10,000

To support the 2001 Great Plains Film Festival. Held biennially in the summer, the festival provides a showcase for film and video artists working in the American heartland (Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.)

Global Action Project, Inc., New York, NY $10,000

To support Urban Voices, a media production and literacy program for more than 150 economically disadvantaged young people. Through the workshops, these young producers will gain skills and the ability to deconstruct mainstream media images.

Greenway Arts Alliance (on behalf of Displaced Films), Los Angeles, CA $35,000

To support postproduction costs for a six-hour documentary television series by David Zeiger about students in their last year of high school. Intended for national PBS broadcast, "Senior Year" will follow 15 seniors from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles. (Multi-state)

Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute, Hot Springs, AR $7500

To support the 2001 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. Attended by over 16,000 people, this festival is dedicated to the art of non-fiction film.

Independent Films, Aspen, CO $10,000

To support the Aspen Shortsfest Film Festival. Short, live action, animation and documentary films from the U.S. and abroad will be showcased.

Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc., Atlanta, GA $7500

To support the 25th Atlanta Film and Video Festival. This event presents the best of current independent film and video to an average audience of 6000 people.

Interfaze Educational Productions, Inc., Berkeley, CA $15,000

To support the production of a documentary film by Marilyn Mulford and Claudio Duran on the experiences of Chilean artist-exiles. Archeology of Memory will combine archival footage, interviews, storytelling and reenactments to illustrate remembrances of this historical time. (Multi-state)

International Latino Cultural Center (Chicago Latino Cinema), Chicago, IL $25,000

To support the 17th Chicago Latino Film Festival. Held annually in the spring, this festival offers over 100 films to an average audience of over 45,000 people.

Jewish Film Festival, San Francisco, CA $20,000

To support the 2001 Jewish Film Festival and expansion of the organization's Web site. The festival, devoted to Jewish-subject films, will be held over a one-month period in San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto and Mann County; the Web site will serve as an information resource and include an image library and archive. (Multi-state)

Kartemquin Educational Films, Chicago, IL $47,000

To support production and postproduction costs of a documentary film titled Refrigerator Mothers by Gordon Quinn, J. J. Han ley and David Simpson about autism. The film will paint an intimate portrait of an entire generation of mothers, already laden with the challenge of raising profoundly disordered children, who lived for years under the dehumanizing shadow of "mother blame." (Multi-state)

Living Archives, Inc., New York, NY $35,000

To support the production of a documentary film by Nick Doob on the lives, work and marriage of Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder. It will include footage of their work ranging from the early 1950s to the work they are currently creating and performing. (Multi-state)

MediaRites, Portland, OR $12,500

To support the production of two one-hour radio documentaries by Dmae Roberts. Heart of Nature will profile children with disabilities; Spirit of Justice will explore how artistic endeavors affect young people in the juvenile justice system. (Multi-state)

Millennium Film Workshop, Inc., New York, NY $10,000

To support the exhibition of experimental film and video art and the provision of filmmaking workshops. Millennium's exhibition programs feature the work of avant-garde cinema and video from the U.S. and abroad.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Strange Attractions), New York, NY $47,000

To support the production of an experimental documentary film by Peter Friedman and Roger Manley. Beyond Belief: The Meaning and Power of Things will examine the meaning of the word "belief" as it applies to religion as well as to our everyday lives. (Multi-state)

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Parents of Cerebral Palsy Film Company), New York, NY $25,000

To support production and postproduction costs for a documentary film by Charles Schultz on Samuel Mockbee and his students. Founded by Mockbee, The Rural Studio (both the name of the film and the program) guides Auburn University architecture students as they design and construct homes and community spaces within economically depressed Hale County, AL. (Multi-state)

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of the African Film Festival), New York, NY $25,000

To support the exhibition and tour of a series of films from Africa. The theme of the-2001 festival is "40 Years of-African Cinema--Then and Now." (Multi-state)

Persona Grata Productions, Inc., San Francisco, CA $20,000

To support the production of an experimental narrative film by Paul Kwan and Arnold Iger. Agnosia: Confessions of a Tasteless Critic will take an offbeat look at the relationship between food, culture and memory. (Multi-state)

Portland Art Museum (on behalf of Northwest Film Center), Portland, OR $40,000

To support the Northwest Film and Video Festival and its tour throughout the Northwest. The festival is an annual event that showcases new work by media artists living in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. (Multi-state)

Promises Film Company, Berkeley, CA $47,000

To support the postproduction costs for a documentary film by B. Z. Goldberg and Justine Shapiro on the Middle Eastem conflict. Through the voices of children, Promises will examine the deep-rooted boundaries that lie between seven children living in Jerusalem. (Multi-state)

San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA $20,000

To support the curated film series San Francisco Cinematheque: 40 Years in Focus. For four decades, the San Francisco Cinematheque has dedicated itself to, and premiered the work of, experimental film and video artists.

Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Inc., Nashville, TN $5000

To support the 2001 Nashville Independent Film Festival. This event features documentaries, narrative films, experimental work and student films and videos.

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc., New York, NY $35,000

To support the production of 10 radio documentaries by David Isay. "American Talkers," to be aired on National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition," will present the voices of ordinary Americans who have an extraordinary penchant for storytelling. (Multi-state)

Soundprint Media Center, Inc., Laurel, MD $30,000

To support The Pairing Project in which six emerging radio producers work with Soundprint and their local public radio stations to create new audio documentaries. The stations will play a mentoring role, providing the producers with editing facilities and administrative support, while Soundprint staff conduct workshops to establish a common level of production values and techniques. (Multi-state)

Southwestern Alternate Media Projects, Inc., Houston, TX $25,000

To support the production and statewide distribution of "The Territory." As the longest running public television showcase of media art in the U.S., this 13-part series presents independent film and video works to over 12 million viewers throughout Texas.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Nevada City, CA $5000

To support the Screenwriters Program. This eight-day workshop is centered on the essence of storytelling and teaches participants how to show rather than tell their stories.

Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo Media Resources, Inc.), Buffalo, NY

$5000

To support a media artist-in-residence and the upgrade of film/digital editing equipment. With the improved equipment, the artist-in-residence will be invited to Squeaky Wheel to complete his/her work.

Standby Program, Inc., New York, NY

$15,000

To support the provision of state-of-the-art, postproduction video equipment to artists and independent producers. Standby's access program is a unique model of collaboration between a nonprofit arts organization and privately owned businesses.

Sundance Institute for Film and Television, Salt Lake City, UT

$110,000

To support the Feature Film Program and the House of Docs. The Feature Film Program offers emerging screenwriters, directors, producers and composers the opportunity, support and resources needed to successfully develop new creative work; the House of Docs was created to nurture innovative, nonfiction storytelling.

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium, Jersey City, NJ

$18,000

To support the 2000 Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. Over 60 organizations throughout the U.S. host the festival each year and it draws over 800 entries annually from all over the country. (Multi-state)

Tundra Club, Bozeman, MT

$40,000

To support the production of "Hearing Voices," a radio series curated by Barrett Golding. These radio documentaries will feature people around the country sharing their thoughts, myths and memories. (Multi-state)

University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

$20,000

To support the production of a six-hour radio documentary series on the social history of rural Southern working class music. "Honky Tonks, Hymns and the Blues" will combine narration, archival recordings, oral histories, interviews and recent recordings to shed new light on the development of indigenous music. (Multi-state)

Video Association of Dallas, Inc., Dallas, TX

$10,000

To support the 15th annual Dallas Video Festival. Over a four-day period, the event will present over 200 screenings of work by national and international artists to an estimated audience of over 6000 people.

Visual Communications (Southern California Asian American Studies Central, Inc.), Los Angeles, CA

$20,000

To support the 15th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. Held in the summer, this is Southern California's showcase of independent film and video work from Asian and Asian-Pacific American filmmakers.

Washington, D.C. International Film Festival, Washington, D.C.

$25,000

To support the 2001 Washington D.C. International Film Festival. Held annually in the spring, this event includes free films for children, senior citizens and underserved communities.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Appalshop, Inc. (on behalf of American Festival Project), Whitesburg, KY

$40,000

To support the American Festival Project. Artists from several disciplines will work as partners with small Appalachian communities on collaborative art and performance projects during 2001-02. (Multi-state)

Chinese Cultural Productions, San Francisco, CA

$15,000

To support the development and presentation of new interdisciplinary works. Chinese Cultural Productions will premiere works that reflect a convergence of performing arts and digital technology.

Circuit Network (on behalf of La Pocha Nostra), San Francisco, CA

$10,000

To support artist residencies by La Pocha Nostra. Week-long residencies will take place in Anchorage, AK; San Antonio, TX; Santa Fe, NM; Denver, CO; and Grinnell, IA during 2001. (Multi state)

Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY

$17,000

To support residencies for professional artists. In 2001, artists will come from across the U.S. for one-month residencies that offer uninterrupted time and privacy for thinking, experimenting and creating.

DiverseWorks, Inc., Houston, TX

$40,000

To support DiverseDialogues, an artist residency program. This program aims to promote the interchange of ideas among national, regional and Houston artists and multiple communities in the greater Houston area.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA

$10,000

To support one-month residencies for 10 American artists during the 2001 season. This project will provide studios, living accommodations, meals and professional support for three composers, three choreographers, two visual artists and two media/new genres artists.

Downtown Arts Projects, New York, NY

$20,000

To support the Downtown Arts Festival. This three-week event will present a broad sampling of contemporary art from New York City including visual art, dance, theater, music, film/video, spoken word and digital media.

Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA

$38,000

To support 2nd Wednesdays. This series of evening performances and installations will be presented in a cafe atmosphere; selected evenings will be broadcast live over the Internet for national audiences. (Multi-state)

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Provincetown, MA

$15,000

To support the Winter Residency Program. Approximately 20 emerging writers and visual artists will be provided with housing, studios and a modest monthly stipend from October 2001 through April 2002.

First Voice, Inc., San Francisco, CA

$15,000

To support phase two of SUN CYCLES. This work combines spoken word, jazz, solo performance and multimedia production with Japanese Gagaku, Noh theater and other Asian performing arts traditions. (Multi-state)

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX

$45,000

To support the development of Nueva Obras/New Works. This project will serve up to 60 emerging artists who will be able to receive funding, mentoring, publicity assistance and presentation of new work.

Hallwalls, Inc., Buffalo, NY

$30,000

To support the Hallwalls Artist-in-Residence Project. Six creative residency projects will be the result of artist collaborations in Buffalo between 2001 and 2002.

Harvestworks, Inc., New York, NY

$20,000

To support Harvestworks' Artists' Access Program. This program provides artists with low cost or free access to advanced multimedia facilities and instruction courses in New York City.

Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

$35,000

To support the U.S. Artists-in-Residence Program and public programs. These programs will provide three-month residences for up to 30 artists and 15-20 educational programs for artists and audiences between February 1 and December 31, 2001.

Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture (Hostos Community College Advisory Council, Inc.), Bronx, NY

$10,000

To support the creation and presentation of Barrios. This new work is centered around the idea and the reality of a series of well-known crossroads and neighborhoods in New York City's Latino communities.

Justice Matters Institute (on behalf of Asian Improv aRts), San Francisco, CA

$5000

To support Day of Remembrance. This annual cultural arts and education presentation is organized in remembrance of the World War II incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese American and Japanese Peruvian civilians.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (on behalf of Bustlelamp Productions), New York, NY

$30,000

To support Spectropia. This piece will be an evening-length interactive media performance by two players on multiple screens. (Multi-state)

Miami Valley Cooperative Gallery (Consortium), Dayton, OH

$5000

To support a consortium with Culture Works to present the Dayton Asian and Asian American Art and Media Festival. The Festival will feature an exhibit of work by Asian American artists and screenings of contemporary film and video works by Asian and Asian American media artists.

Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ

$10,000

To support a multimedia theatre production based on Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. A new text will be created to explore the African American female experience with race, class and gender.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (Consortium), Staten Island, NY

$15,000

To support an Internet performance project. Performances will be made available in real time to audiences at various geographic locations and simultaneously to individuals on the Internet. Afterwards, the pieces will be available in an on-line archive. (Multi-state)

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Maureen Fleming Performance), New York, NY

$10,000

To support Mother/Child created by Maureen Fleming Performance. The new work will be performed in Santa Cruz, Minneapolis, Cleveland and New York and will include a residency component involving local performing artists. (Multi-state)

On the Boards, Seattle, WA

$30,000

To support the three year initiative Redefining the Performing Artist: An Interdisciplinary Approach. The initiative will consist of four performance residencies and a local festival in which new productions will premiere.

Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

$20,000

To support Abriendo Puertas (Opening Doors). This five-week festival will celebrate the artistic contributions of contemporary women from the Latin Diaspora.

Temple University (on behalf of Tyler School of Art/Art Works in Different Places), Philadelphia, PA

$35,000

To support a series of commissioned works. Presented in the fall/spring 2001, the new works will tour in several communities.

Theatre of Yugen, Inc., San Francisco, CA

$10,000

To support a new multidisciplinary production by Erik Ehn. Based on the life of nineteenth-century writer and Japan scholar Lafacido Hearn, the production will combine Western naturalism with Asian theater and dance styles as well as multimedia audiovisual techniques.

Walker Art Center, Inc., Minneapolis, MN

$55,000

To support the commissioning of an artist residency project, Advent of Change: Creative Convergence in Form, Context, and Community. This project will involve a range of artists working in dance, music, video, puppet theater, installation, performance, sculpture, film and new media.

Wexner Center for the Arts (Wexner Center Foundation), Columbus, OH

$75,000

To support the commissioning of visual, performing and media art works for the Wexner Center's residency program. The program provides financial, technical and professional support for the creation and/or presentation of new works.

MUSEUMS

Albright College (on behalf of the Freedman Gallery) (Consortium), Reading, PA

To support the planning of an exhibition and festival titled "Mexico 2002." The project is a consortium between the Freedman Gallery, the Freyberger Gallery at Penn State, the Reading Public Museum and the Sharadin Gallery at Kutztown University.

$15,000

Americas Society, Inc., New York, NY

$25,000

To support the planning of the exhibition "The Image of the Indian: Ethnicity, Visuality, and Patterns of Meaning in Colonial Mexico." The exhibition will examine the multiplicity of visual representations of Indians in Spanish colonial art and how those images contributed to the formation of identity.

Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA

$25,000

To support the Residency/New Works program planned for the inaugural year of the new Bellevue Art Museum. The program will bring artists and audiences together to collaborate on the production of new work.

Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID

$30,000

To support an exhibition of the work of contemporary American artist Gary Hill, with accompanying catalog and education programs. The exhibition will consist of up to four video installations and a new commissioned work to premiere in Boise.

Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

$20,000

To support the exhibition "Reclaiming Space," and an accompanying catalog. The exhibition will present an international group of contemporary artists whose work addresses the challenge of human existence in the face of an increasingly complex, global society.

Dia Center for the Arts (Consortium), New York, NY

$35,000

To support a public art project by contemporary American artist George Trakas on the Hudson River waterfront in Beacon, NY. Dia has formed a consortium with Scenic Hudson Land Trust, Inc. to carry out the project.

Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum and the Clocktower Gallery, Long Island City, NY

$15,000

To support an exhibition of the work of contemporary Canadian artist Janet Cardiff, with accompanying catalog and education programs. The exhibition will include the artist's site specific audio walks as well as a number of indoor sound pieces and multimedia installations.

Japan Society, Inc., New York, NY

$80,000

To support the national tour of a retrospective exhibition of the work of artist Yoko Ono. This is the first major museum exhibition of Ono's long artistic career in the fields of visual art, music, film and performance. (Multi-state)

Menil Collection (Menu Foundation, Inc.), Houston, TX

$25,000

To support the exhibition "Pop Art: US/UK Connections," and accompanying educational materials and programs. The exhibition will examine the development of classic Pop art through a critical transatlantic cultural exchange which occurred in the decade between 1956 and 1966.

Moore College of Art (on behalf of the Goldie Paley Gallery), Philadelphia, PA

$30,000

To support the exhibition "Poetics + Technology: Art at the Start of the Digital Age," with accompanying catalog and education programs. The project offers the opportunity to explore topics such as the nature of artistic production in the technological age and artists' evolving perspectives vis-a-vis the role of the gallery as an interactive cybersite.

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

$40,000

To support a touring exhibition of the work of Italian photographer Mario Giacomelli, with accompanying catalog and education programs. The retrospective exhibition will include the artist's earliest work as well as his last projects--photographs that span the last half of the twentieth century. (Multi-state)

New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary Venezuelan artist Jose Antonio Hernandez-Diez, with accompanying catalog and education programs. Hernandez-Diez creates multimedia installations that examine stereotypical views of Latin American identity. (Multi-state)

$20,000

North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND

$40,000

To support the commissioning of a new work by contemporary American artist Mary Lucier, with an accompanying catalog. The work will be a video installation piece addressing the emptying out of the Great Plains.

Red Cloud Indian School, Inc. (Consortium), Pine Ridge, SD

$10,000

To support an exhibition of the work of Native American artist Arthur Amiotte, with accompanying catalog. The project is a consortium between the Heritage Center Based at Red Cloud; University of South Dakota, Vermillion; Washington Pavilion of Arts and Sciences, Sioux Falls; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings; Journey Museum, Rapid City; Akta Lakota Museum, Chamberlain; and Northern State University, Aberdeen.

San Francisco Museum of Modem Art, San Francisco, CA

$95,000

To support a traveling retrospective exhibition of the work of American artist Eva Hesse (1936-1970), with accompanying catalog and education programs. The most comprehensive presentation of Hesse's work to date, the exhibition will offer new research into her career and reveal her significant influence on contemporary artistic practice and thought. (Multi-state)

SECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art), Winston Salem, NC

$25,000

University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of University Art Museum), Berkeley, CA

To support a residency project by multimedia American artist Lesley Dill, with accompanying education programs. Dill will be the tenth artist to participate in SECCA's ongoing Artist and Community residency program.

$10,000

To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of American artist Joe Brainard, with accompanying catalog and education programs. While Brainard was an active figure in the New York art and literary world in the 1960s and '70s, his work has not been the subject of a substantive exhibition. (Multi-state)

University of North Carolina at Greensboro (on behalf of the Weatherspoon Art Gallery), Greensboro, NC

$15,000

To support the touring exhibition "Priceless Children: Lewis Hine and the Photo-Secession (1890-1925)," with accompanying catalog. The exhibition will contrast Hine's social documentary photographs with pictorialist images depicting contrary views of the history of childhood in America at the turn of the century. (Multi-state)

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

$60,000

To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary African American artist Martin Puryear, with accompanying catalog and education programs. This will be the first exhibition of the artist's work in the U.S. in the last decade. (Multi-state)

Walters Art Gallery (Consortium), Baltimore, MD

$50,000

To support the commission of temporary works of public art on the occasion of the reopening of the Walters' newly renovated 1974 building. The project is a consortium with the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore.

VISUAL ARTS

Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA

$20,000

To support "ARTerial Routes: Artistic Motives," a series of artists' billboards installed on major roadways in and around Philadelphia. The project will be curated by Julie Courtney, who has extensive experience in presenting the work of artists in unexpected places.

ArtLies, Houston, TX

$10,000

To support the reviews section of ArtLies, a quarterly publication that covers the visual arts in Texas. First published in 1993, ArtLies seeks to expand news coverage and critical dialogue of the visual arts. (Multi-state)

Baltimore City Foundation, Inc. (on behalf of Link Arts, Inc.), Baltimore, MD

$7000

To support an issue of the journal LINK: A Critical Journal on the Arts in Baltimore and the World and related programming. A book-length arts journal, LINK examines contemporary culture and the arts. (Multi-state)

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

$40,000

To support residencies for artists to create new work. Participating artists are provided with housing and work space, technical assistance and a monthly stipend for three- to six-month periods.

Berkeley Art Center Association, Berkeley, CA

$25,000

To support an exhibition and catalog of photographs documenting the cultural and political upheavals in Northern California during the 1960s and early 1970s entitled "The Whole World is Watching." Co-curators Ken Light from the University of California, Berkeley and photographer Harold Adler will select images.

Bronx Council on the Arts (on behalf of Longwood Arts Project), Bronx, NY

$57,400

To support cyberspace residencies and an artists' team project in which artists will create new work using advanced computer technology. An exhibition of completed works will be hosted on Longwood's on-line cyber gallery and public programs and demonstrations will complement the residencies.

Center for Land Use Interpretation, Culver City, CA

$28,000

To support the Wendover Artists Residency program. Artists will receive stipends and materials to enable them to create new work in response to the remote landscape on the border of Nevada and Utah. (Multi-state)

Center for Photography at Woodstock, Inc., Woodstock, NY

$14,000

To support a residency program that will host photographers for one-month periods. The Center will provide the resident artists with an honorarium, studio and darkroom access, equipment, lodging and meals.

Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

$6500

To support a site-specific, commissioned installation by the artist Hirokazu Fukawa." You Are Floating Through the Deep Black Void" will explore the artist's relationship with his autistic son.

CEPA Gallery (Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art), Buffalo, NY

$27,000

To support an exhibition "Paradise in Search of a Future," featuring work that explores travel and tourism as significant cultural practices. This multi-site exhibition is based on the premise that National Geographic magazine had an enormous influence on how Westerners see and represent culture in the twentieth century.

City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs (Consortium), Charleston, SC

$60,000

To support a public art program designed to address Charleston's historical role as the port of entry for the slave trade. In consortium with Spoleto Festival USA and under the working title "Proposals for a Monument to the Middle Passage," the project will consist of an exhibition of monument concepts, artists' residencies and opportunities for dialogue via radio programs, the Internet, community interviews and local presentations.

Dleu Donne Papermill, Inc., New York, NY

$27,000

To support a touring exhibition and catalog, "Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art," in celebration of Dieu Done Papermill's anniversary. The exhibition will feature specially commissioned work by three artists as well as approximately 30 works selected from more than 500 artists who have experimented with hand papermaking at Dieu Donne since 1976. (Multi-state)

Documents Magazine, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

$5000

To support the "Discussions with Artists" series in three issues of Documents magazine. The articles will provide artists with an opportunity to discuss their work in an interdisciplinary forum and an accessible format. (Multi-state)

En Foco, Inc., Bronx, NY

$20,000

To support production of three issues of Nueva Luz, a bilingual photographic journal. Each issue will feature the work of three emerging photographers of color, an essay by a guest critic/editor and a comprehensive listing of career opportunities and other resources for photographers. (Multi-state)

Escuela de Artes Plasticas de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR

$58,700

To support the Artist-in-Residence Program bringing contemporary artists to Puerto Rico for four-month residencies. Installation artists Sylvia Benitez, a Baltimore native of Puerto Rican descent, and Cildo Meireles from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will lead workshops and give lectures to the school's student population of 300 and an estimated 3000 from the general public.

Forecast Public Artworks, St. Paul, MN

$10,000

To support the publication of two issues of Public Art Review. One issue will focus on the administration of public art projects, and the second will consider public art in transportation. (Multi-state)

Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO

$27,400

To support a residency and traveling exhibition by San Francisco artist Enrique Chagoya. The exhibition "The Adventures of the Reverse Anthropologist" will include works created between 1995 and 2000.

Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies, Los Angeles, CA

$38,000

To support five editions of Art Issues, a journal of contemporary art criticism. Based in Los Angeles, the publication covers new developments in the visual arts on a national basis. (Multi-state)

Light Work Visual Studies, Inc., Syracuse, NY

$50,000

To support a residency program for artists and the publication of their work in Contact Sheet--The Light Work Annual. The participating artists' work will also be made available on Light Work's on-line image database, a collection of over 1700 prints, essays and biographical information.

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

$27,000

To support the presentation of new work by three emerging and/or under-recognized artists. Figurative sculptor Keith Edmier, media artist David Askevold and painter Ellen Gallagher will participate in a three-week residency during which they will produce or complete work for an exhibition.

Maryland Art Place, Inc., Baltimore, MD

$25,000

To support a residency and workshop program for two nationally known critics and publication of a catalog. Critics Zoe Anglesey and E. Ethelbert Miller will conduct workshops with local artists and writers and participate in a public forum to discuss current issues in art criticism.

Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX

$20,000

To support an exhibition series featuring the work of emerging artists. "The Diversity and Emergence" series is juried by a panel of artists and curators who review proposals by artists whose works include historical, social, literary and/or personal experiences with Latin American issues.

Photographic Resource Center, Inc., Boston, MA

$27,000

To support an exhibition series examining photography's historic relationship to the unknown. "The Photography in Human Experience" series will examine the cross-disciplinary complexities that photography dealt with from its invention to the close of the twentieth century.

Public Art Fund, Inc., New York, NY

$20,000

To support publication of a book documenting projects undertaken by the Public Art Fund. The book, edited and organized by writer and critic Jeffrey Kastner, will explore in depth approximately 15 public art projects.

Roswell Museum and Art Center Foundation, Roswell, NM

$14,000

To support one-year residencies for visual artists. Participating artists will be provided with a professionally equipped studio, living accommodations, a monthly stipend and concentrated time to develop their work.

Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

$25,000

To support Generations in Print A Portfolio by Mujeres, Maestros + Techies, an opportunity for artists to create new work in a printmaking studio. The program will allow three atelier groups of artists to work with each other and with a master printer to experiment with different techniques.

Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Inc., Staten island, NY

$35,000

To support an exhibition of new work by artists responding to issues surrounding the closing of the world's largest landfill, "Fresh Kills on Staten Island." Tentatively titled "Fresh Kills," the exhibition and related events will investigate and celebrate the landfill as it exists today, the future deposition of garbage once the dump closes and the adaptation of the landfill to the largest public green space in New York City.

Space One Eleven, Inc., Birmingham, AL

$15,000

To support a residency program by Alabama artist Lonnie Holley. Holley will conduct workshops, master classes and demonstrations during an extended 18-month residency.

United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, Seattle, WA

$20,000

To support the first solo exhibition in the U.S. featuring the work of Michael Belmore, an Ojibway born in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Belmore will present recent work from an installation series inside the gallery, as well as a temporary outdoor piece outside the Sacred Circle Gallery at the Daybreak Arts Center in Seattle.