2004 GRANT AWARDS - Heritage & Preservation

2004 Grant Awards: Heritage & Preservation

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

DANCE

American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support theTap City festival. The project will include educational activities and a series of choreography workshops, with a focus on the classic and contemporary choreography of tap masters.

Batoto Yetu, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support expansion of Nzinga: The Legend Continues, choreographed by artistic director Jlio T. Leito. The story of Nzinga pays tribute to Western Africa's historical and cultural heritage.

Chicago Human Rhythm Project
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support a festival of tap and percussive dance. The project will include performances by national and international artists as well as educational activities including residencies, master classes, and workshops.

CityDance Ensemble, Inc.
Washington, DC
$5,000
To support the reconstruction and presentation of dance works and the creation of a film. The dance works include How Long Brethren, choreographed by Helen Tamiris in 1937, and Harmonica Breakdown, created by Jane Dudley in 1938.

Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support a dance videotape archival project. Facing the Magnetic Media Crisis project will include components to catalog tapes, reformat deteriorating tapes, and provide archival-quality cases.

Dance Notation Bureau, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the addition of new dance scores to an archive of notated dances. The scores will be documented using Laban notation, a method of recording dance movement, containing full historical and production data.

House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support an initiative to transfer artistic director Meredith Monk's archive to a public institution. The project will include the completion of an archive catalog, the restoration and digitization of dance works on film, and the identification of dance score recordings.

International Tap Association
Boulder, CO
$10,000
To support the publication of interviews and articles that examine the heritage of tap dance. The materials will be published in International Tap Association's magazine, OnTap, and in two monographs designed to capture the legacy of legendary artists.

Jazz Tap Ensemble, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the preservation of rhythm tap dance. The project will include the creation of a DVD, a mentorship program for choreographers and dancers, and the creation of new work.

Kankouran West African Dance Company (consortium)
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support a consortium project to present a performance of Heritage. Kankouran will collaborate with Ron Brown/Evidence to demonstrate how the traditional cultural arts of Africa are being preserved and integrated into modern dance.

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
To support a project to provide documentary information on dances by Martha Graham. The project will provide anthologies and offer tool kits to dance companies and students in order to enhance the public's knowledge of these works.

Mason/Rhynes Productions, Inc.
Takoma Park, MD
$5,000
To support the presentation of modern dances by African-American choreographers Donald McKayle and David Rousseve. The original works will be performed by Gesel Mason, alongside performances by local guest artists or companies who have the work of African-American choreographers in their repertoire.

Miami City Ballet, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$25,000
To support the presentation of Jerome Robbins's Afternoon of a Faun. In addition to the performance, there will be lecture-demonstrations and master classes.

New York Baroque Dance Co. Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Baroque Ballet Workshop, a residency program to be held in Hunter, New York; San Rafael, California; and Denton,Texas. The project will include classes, concerts, and lectures.

Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the preservation and presentation of two works by choreographer Alwin Nikolais. The works will be performed by the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in Salt Lake City.

Ragamala Music and Dance Theater (consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support a consortium project for the remounting of Bhakti (devotion). Ragamala and the Southern Theater will co-present the work, choreographed by Aparna Ramaswamy, in collaboration with composer/vocalists Ruth MacKenzie and Nirmala Rajasekar.

Repertory Dance Theatre
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
To support the reconstruction of choreographer John Butler's 1968 work, The Initiate. The work will be documented using a Laban notated score and digital video, and an educational component will be offered to students and teachers.

Srishti Dances of India
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the creation and touring of an evening-length work. Lavanya: Graceful Expressions of the East will interweave two of India's classical dance forms, odissi and manipuri, and will be choreographed by artistic director Sreyashi Dey and Poushali Chatterjee, artistic director of Calcutta, an Indian-based manipuri dance troupe.

Temple University (consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support a consortium project to preserve, catalog, and provide access to the Philadelphia Dance Collection. Temple University and Swarthmore College will coordinate access to the archives in a project that will preserve documents representing the dance heritage and dirverse traditions of Philadelphia.

DESIGN

Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
$20,000
To support a study for the restoration of the auditorium and lobbies of a historic theater, the Bardavon. The project will determine the focus of restoration work and include planning for the documentation and conservation of the original architectural dome.

Center for the Study of Classical Architecture Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the educational program Classical Architecture for Design and Building Professionals. Curricular tools will be developed to make the program more accessible to building design and construction professionals nationwide.

Cornerstones Community Partnerships
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
To support educational workshops on the preservation of historic adobe structures. The project will train rural community residents in the traditional building methods of their ancestors.

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Scottsdale, AZ
$20,000
To support the restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's living quarters at Taliesin West. Based on historic photographs and documents, the restored living quarters will include books, artifacts, art, lighting, and furnishings.

Municipal Art Society of New York (consortium)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support Marking Places that Matter. The consortium project will implement innovative place markers that interpret the historical and cultural landscape of New York City.

National Preservation Institute
Alexandria, VA
$20,000
To support stewardship training for historic sites and properties. The project will provide professional development to directors of historic sites as well as to concerned community members, board members, and property managers who are responsible for historic and cultural resources.

Projects in the Design Arts Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the publication Swoop: A History of the Suspension Bridge . The book will profile landmark American suspension bridges from 1800 to the present.

FOLK & TRADITIONAL ARTS

Ali Akbar College of Music
San Rafael, CA
$20,000
To support the Ali Akbar Archive Project. The preservation effort will survey 35 years of important archival material and will explore ways to make the contents accessible.

Alianza Dominicana, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Dominican Folk Instrument and Dance Apprenticeship project. The apprentice dancers in Alianza's youth ensemble will train to perform traditional social dances, while the folk instrument component will include instruction in the accordion, guitar, tres, quinto, and percussion instruments.

Allegheny Echoes, Inc.
Marlinton, WV
$8,000
To support workshops in traditional Appalachian music and poetry. The week-long workshops are designed to preserve, present, and pass down the traditional arts of West Virginia.

Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA
$40,000
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The project will support one-on-one learning for 25 master-apprentice pairs, an artists' gathering, and an on-line statewide traditional arts directory.

Arhoolie Foundation (on behalf of Sageland Media)
El Cerrito, CA
$20,000
To support the Kenny Hall Video Project. The video will document, preserve and present the repertoire and musical heritage of old-time fiddle and mandolin player Kenny Hall.

Asian Americans United, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the ninth Annual Mid-Autumn Festival. The traditional lunar festival will feature master artists in martial arts, Chinese opera, traditional music, and dance as well as performances by youth and other community members.

Beacon Street Gallery and Performance Company
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support continuation of the Chicago Fieldwork Project. The survey will identify the cultural assets and needs of the diverse population of the Chicago metropolitan area.

Birthplace of Country Music Alliance
Bristol, TN
$10,000
To support a researcher position and related costs. The researcher will be responsible for interviews; field research; and the creation of an archive of materials about musicians, luthiers (guitar makers), and musical venues within a 100-mile radius of Bristol.

Boys & Girls Harbor, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Archive Preservation Initiative (API). Archivists will catalog, preserve, and store paper and photographic materials in the 15,000-item Raices (roots) Collection.

Cambodian American Heritage, Inc.
Fort Washington, MD
$10,000
To support instruction in Cambodian traditional music as well as classical folk dances. The project will culminate with a concert in observance of Cambodian New Year. Workshops will be led by Madame Sam-OeunTes, dance director and 1998 NEA National Heritage Fellow, as well as by six additional master teachers and three instructors.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$52,000
To support the Community Cultural Initiatives (CCI). The project is designed to contribute to the efforts of Mexican, Chinese, and Peruvian communities in becoming self-sufficient managers of their music and dance traditions.

Centro Civico of Amsterdam, Inc.
Amsterdam, NY
$20,000
To support documentation of the sacred traditional art of Latina home altars. The project will result in a traveling exhibition and catalog.

Chemung Valley Arts Council, Inc.
Corning, NY
$5,000
To support the Traditional Country Music Project. The project consists of an ongoing Old Time Fiddlers Gathering and a first-time Bluegrass Gathering.

City Lore, Inc. (on behalf of Henry Street Folklore)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Friends of Old Time Music (FOTM) project. Activities will include an oral history project, conference, concert, and publication to examine, analyze, and set in historical context the work of this pioneering folk arts organization.

City Lore, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support a consortium project, the 2005 People's Poetry Endangered Languages initiative. In partnership with the Poets House, Inc., the gathering will bring together Native Americans, Africans and South American immigrants, Yiddish, Gaelic, and Basque poets.

City Lore, Inc. (consortium) (on behalf of Trova, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the sixth International Troubadour Festival. Twenty-two trovadores (improvisatory singer-poets) will perform Puerto Rican's traditional jibaro music.

City of San Fernando, California
San Fernando, CA
$20,000
To suport the Mariachi Master-Apprentice Program. The project includes instruction in advanced arrangement and performance skills.

Community Economic Development Center of SE Massachusetts
New Bedford, MA
$30,000
To support the Working Waterfront Festival. The event is a celebration of the occupational culture and artistic traditions of the port of New Bedford, including demonstrations and contests of occupational skills of the fishermen.

Dance Films Association, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support a consortium folk music and dance project, Bombazo con los Cepeda. In collaboration with the Hostos Community College Advisory Council, Inc., the project will support Afro-Puerto Rican bomba music and dance through a residency tour consisting of concerts, workshops, school lectures, and demonstrations.

Davis & Elkins College (on behalf of Augusta Heritage Center)
Elkins, WV
$30,000
To support the West Virginia Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program and the Old-Time Fiddler's Reunion and related costs. Ten apprenticeship pairs will be supported in the home or workplace of the master artist where content, values and lore are shared along with the art itself.

Delta Blues Education Fund
Clarksdale, MS
$10,000
To support the Delta Blues Education Program. Apprentices will learn the Delta blues tradition directly from master blues musician Johnnie "Mr. Johnnie" Billington and graduate students from his training program.

Dry Creek Arts Fellowship
Flagstaff, AZ
$10,000
To support inclusion of the paniolo, Hawaiian cowboy culture at the 16th AnnualTrappings of the American West Exhibition. Activities will include an Artist/Apprenticeship Exchange Program designed to explore the cultural connections between the paniolo and the cowboy of the American West.

Evergreen State College (on behalf of Longhouse Education and Cultural Center)
Olympia, WA
$25,000
To support the second Annual Northwest Native Carvers Gathering. Fifteen Native American wood carvers will meet to present their work to the public in an educational setting and to analyze and discuss issues related to the protection, promotion, and preservation of the traditional expression of culture.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Public Interest TV Films)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support a documentary film titled Freedom's Road: A Musical Journey. The film will document the life and work of Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir as they travel the world uncovering, preserving, and disseminating an endangered indigenous oral folk culture and African-American vernacular music.

Florida Division of Historical Resources (on behalf of Florida Folklife Program)
Tallahassee, FL
$15,000
To support a survey of traditional arts in Latin-American and Vietnamese communities in central Florida. Documentation will result in the integration of artists into special events, Web site resources, and ongoing folklife programs.

Gamelan Sekar Jaya
El Cerrito, CA
$15,000
To support post-production costs for a video documentary on the life and work of Balinese dancer Ni Ketut Arini. The documentary will be the first examination of Balinese dance conveyed by a master artist widely recognized as a national treasure and repository of rare and endangered dance forms.

Hawaii Craftsmen
Honolulu, HI
$20,000
To support the creation of a video archive of Hawaii's diverse floral artistic traditions. Art forms documented include Hawaiian lei making, Chinese New Year narcissus carving, ceremonial Laotian flower offering, and Japanese ikebana flower arranging.

Historical Association of Southern Florida, Inc.
Miami, FL
$20,000
To support the Haitian Community Arts Project. Activities will include technical assistance to Haitian arts practitioners in south Florida, and an exhibition of photographs highlighting Haitian traditional arts.

Homowo African Arts & Cultures
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support the 15th Annual Homowo Festival of African Arts. Activities will include performances, demonstrations, interactive workshops, and children's activities.

Hostos Community College Foundation, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$25,000
To support BomPlenazo 2004. The week-long multifaceted program will explore and present Puerto Rico's African-rooted bomba and plena music and dance traditions as they are practiced today.

Hula Preservation Society
Kaneohe, HI
$25,000
To support the preservation of ancient hula through an online hula library. Through digital technologies the voices, faces, movements, stories, and knowledge of Hawaiian hula masters are being gathered, preserved and disseminated.

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$20,000
To support the Cultural Education Program (CEP). The CEP features Pueblo artists in weekly and special-event dances, regular lecture series, art and craft demonstrations, workshops, and festivals.

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$20,000
To support the seventh year of the Southern New England Apprenticeship Project. The project will bring together 10 master artists and apprentices from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

Institute for Cultural Partnerships
Harrisburg, PA
$30,000
To support the Folk Arts of Newcomers project. The project will document, record, and archive traditional arts and practices among newly emerging, ethnic communities in south central Pennsylvania.

Jamestown Fine Arts Association Inc.
Jamestown, ND
$10,000
To support a regional folk arts festival. Activities will include performances, workshops, classes, and exhibitions. Year-long school and community residencies by indigenous and immigrant traditional artists have generated a call for continued arts programming in this city of 16,000.

Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California (on behalf of Gen Taiko)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Mastsuri Project, a program focused on Japanese-American heritage. Activities will include a residency by minyo (folk song) and shamisen (three-string Japanese lute) master artists; performances at the Japan Center Obon Festival, GenTaiko's 10th Anniversary Concert, and the fifth Annual Asian Pacific American Arts and Heritage Festival.

Kaisahan of San Jose
San Jose, CA
$8,000
To support the Next Generation Program. The project will offer five apprenticeships for young adult dancers to assume leadership roles in the teachng of Filipino dance classes.

Kern County Youth Mariachi Foundation
Bakersfield, CA
$20,000
To support implementation of an apprenticeship and instructor training program in mariachi traditions. Advanced students will be trained to mentor and teach younger students. A total of 120 students will be served by the program.

Ketchikan Indian Corporation
Ketchikan, AK
$35,000
To support the carving of traditional southeast Alaska Native totem poles and the organization of a potlatch (raising of the poles) celebration. The project includes an apprenticeship program in which a master carver will teach young Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Haida carvers to shape the poles.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$15,000
To support the Community Heritage Project (CHP). The CHP promotes cultural traditions with the goal of increasing youth and family involvement in community affairs in the Mexican and Mexican-American communities of San Pablo and Richmond.

Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Puerto Rican Music Project. Project activities include concerts, performances, lectures, workshops, classes for youth and adults, and out-of-state residencies.

Maine Acadian Heritage Council
Madawaska, ME
$15,000
To support a compact disc and guidebook of the Saint John Valley cultural heritage trail. The project will introduce local residents and visitors to the region's cultural and historic sites, museums, traditional artists, family farms, stories, traditional cuisine, and music.

Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance, Inc.
Old Town, ME
$25,000
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The program will support 20 master basketmakers and 25 apprentices in the ancient traditions of ash and sweetgrass basketry among the Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes in Maine.

Mars Hill College (on behalf of Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies)
Mars Hill, NC
$10,000
To support the Madison County: Birthplace to Folk Music Festivals project. The project will preserve four festival archival collections containing Southern Appalachian old-time and bluegrass music recordings through an online catalog, a Web-based exhibition, and a Community Memory Celebration.

Michigan State University (consortium)
East Lansing, MI
$35,000
To support a consortium project, the 2004 Great Lakes Folk Festival. In collaboration with the City of East Lansing, the festival will provide a sampling of the best traditional artists around the country and the world.

Mind-Builders Creative Arts Co. (consortium)
Bronx, NY
$10,000
To support a consortium folklorist-in-training program. In partnership with the Bronx Museum of the Arts, 18 interns between the ages of 12 and 18 will be recruited and trained to identify, document, and present 20 folk artists and tradition bearers found in Bronx neighborhoods.

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$55,000
To support an urban and rural festival, a Caribbean traditional arts tour in the eastern United States, and a series of outdoor concerts in an underserved region of Appalachia. The project is designed to present a broad array of folk, tribal, and ethnic artists in educational public programs throughout the nation to build new, diverse audiences for traditional arts while nurturing new, sustainable events.

Native American Art Scholarship Fund
Silver City, NM
$55,000
To support the Lore of the Land Indigenous Aural Historian Training Project. Seven indigenous people from five southwest Native-American tribes will acquire training, equipment skills, and professional credentials as community aural historians.

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
To support the Louisiana Folklife Village, Folk Heritage Stage, and Native American Village at the Jazz Fest. The festival offers attendees a unique opportunity to interact directly with tradition bearers and to develop a deeper understanding of Louisianian and Native-American culture.

New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$20,000
To support a statewide technical assistance and professional development program. The program provides vital services to folk artists and folk cultural specialists in New York.

Odunde, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support the 29th ODUNDE Festival. The festival is the oldest African-American community festival in Philadelphia, featuring local and international dancers, musicians, and performers in the areas of hip-hop, tap dance, gospel, rhythm and blues, stepping, drill teams, and many other genres.

Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
To support Art Happens Here. The project will document and present Philadelphia folk artists and their arts to audiences in community sites throughout the region through traveling exhibitions and artist residencies.

Sweetwater Union High School District (consortium)
Chula Vista, CA
$10,000
To support the Learning from the Masters component of the Sweetwater Mariachi Festival and Conference. The project preserves the age-old Mexican artistic traditions of mariachi and ballet folklorico by inspiring a new generation of artists to hone their music and dance skills at the hands of mariachi master players.

Tohono O'odham Community Action
Sells, AZ
$40,000
To support the Celebration of Basketweavers gathering and related activities. Services will include creation of an on-line artists' directory, revitalization of willow basketweaving traditions through master classes, and expansion of marketing activities.

University of Missouri at Columbia (on behalf of Museum of Art & Archaeaology)
Columbia, MO
$25,000
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The program will join 10 apprenticeship pairs who are committed to conserving their artistic traditions and cultural heritage.

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy
Charlottesville, VA
$25,000
To support a survey of traditional arts in and around Route 58 in southwest Virginia, also known as the Crooked Road. Materials gathered will be used to create a touring exhibition, a documentary film focusing on the Galax Fiddlers Convention, a series of documentary radio pieces, and an expansion of the archive of Virginia folk culture.

Ward Foundation, Inc.
Salisbury, MD
$30,000
To support a consortium project, the Traditional Mid-Atlantic Decoy Project. The project is designed to educate the public about traditional decoy carving in the Mid-Atlantic region and its cultural legacy to a national audience.

West Valley City, Utah
West Valley City, UT
$10,000
To support the Traditionbearers Festival and exhibition. The project will identify, document, and preserve the ethnic arts and artists in West Valley and introduce these ongoing traditions to the larger public.

LITERATURE

Americas Society, Inc. (on behalf of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support a project featuring a special issue of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas focusing on contemporary Latin American writers. The Americas Society also will present bilingual readings, panels, and discussions.

Center for Book Culture
Normal, IL
$30,000
To support the restoration and promotion of major works of modern fiction by Dalkey Archive Press. Authors whose works will be republished as part of the press's International Recovery Project include Ivan Angelo, Nathalie Sarraute, Viktor Shklovsky, Aidan Higgins, and Camilo Jose Cela.

Feminist Press, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the restoration and promotion of books by U.S. women as part of the press's Contemporary Classics Series. Authors whose works will be brought back into print include Shelley Ayame, Nishimura Ota, Denise Chavez, Mary Deasy, Antonia Pola, Jessamyn West, and Paule Marshall.

Latin American Literary Review Press
Pittsburgh, PA
$5,000
To support the publication and promotion of books by Latin American writers. Proposed titles include The Chronicle of San Gabriel by Peruvian writer Julio Ramn Ribeyro and the first unabridged translation of Edmundo Desnoes' Memories of Underdevelopment.

Paris Review Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the preservation and dissemination of the entire archive of Paris Review interviews online, free of charge. The journal will present nearly 300 interviews conducted since 1953 with writers whose work has defined the literary landscape of the latter half of the 20th century.

Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Poetry House Showcase, an exhibit and series of programs designed to preserve and display the breadth of poetry in print. The showcase will feature panel discussions, readings, and publication of an online directory of American poetry books.

San Francisco State University (on behalf of The Poetry Center)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the preservation of historical film footage from the Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives. The center will develop and implement standardized procedures for digitizing, storing, and cataloging its audio and video recordings.

WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
$30,000
To support the preservation and enhancement of Poetry Breaks, a collection of videotape recordings of contemporary poets reading their own work. Poets featured on the tapes include Galway Kinnell, Robert Bly, Sharon Olds, Martin Espada, Lucille Clifton, Li-Young Lee, Stanley Kunitz, Philip Levine, Cyrus Cassells, and Ruth Stone.

LOCALS

Americans for the Arts
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support a series of activities related to public art preservation. Project activities will include the archiving of visual documentation of national public art works for historical purposes as well as to serve as models for new projects, documenting best practices and policies including information about conservation of outdoor art, and disseminating this information to various interested parties.

MEDIA ARTS

Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the preservation of films by Marie Menken and Storm De Hirsch. The materials for these films have been placed permanently with Anthology Film Archives by the estates of the filmmakers. The 61 total works will be preserved on 16mm film and duplicated for distribution.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support ongoing, low-cost video preservation services to artists and arts organizations throughout the nation. In addition, Bay Area Video Coalition will launch an audio preservation and remastering service center.

George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support In Glorious Technicolor. Unique and endangered Technicolor films produced between 1927 and 1951 will be preserved.

Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Magnetic and New Media Preservation Online Sourcebook. The online resource will provide the latest information for video and audio preservation contacts and include information on new media, installation, and related paper ephemera preservation.

Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
$10,000
To support the transfer of films from the David Bradley Film Collection to videotape and DVD. The university's collection includes work by D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. De Mille, and Charlie Chaplin.

Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the preservation of endangered films from the museum's nationally recognized collection. Each year, the Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA's) Department of Film and Media saves 50 to 100 films by transferring them from unstable nitrate stock to acetate, and also preserves fading and damaged acetate films.

National Center for Jewish Film
Waltham, MA
$20,000
To support the preservation of The Cantor's Son and His Wife's Lover. The center's collection contains the only surviving 35mm prints of the films, both of which are in danger of decomposing. Once preserved, the films will be presented worldwide at film festivals, media arts centers, libraries, museums, and universities.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (consortium)
Staten Island, NY
$5,000
To support a consortium project to archive work from the radio series New American Radio. Artists including Pauline Oliveros, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Charles Amirkahnian produced work for the series.

Pacifica Foundation
Universal City, CA
$15,000
To support the initial phases of preservation of arts-related recordings in the Pacifica archive. Of the 40,500 tapes housed in the archive, approximately 25 percent represent arts programming, which include radio adaptations of plays, poetry, literature readings, original radio dramas, artist interviews, and sound sculptures.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of UCLA Film and TV Archive)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
To support the 12th Festival of Preservation. Consisting of films preserved at the UCLA Film andTelevision Archives, the film festival presents work ranging from the silent era to more contemporary cinema.

Silent Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support the 9th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Held during the summer, the event presents film programs with live musical accompaniment. Films to be screened include The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, Lady of the Night, and The Circus.

South Carolina Archives and History Foundation
Columbia, SC
$5,000
To support the preservation and distribution of the film It's Grits. Directed by Stanley Woodward in 1979, It's Grits examines the culture of the South through the lens of this regional cuisine.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Chinese-American Arts Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Summer Cultural Festival. The project will include three fully staged Chinese operas performed by artists from China, Taiwan, and the United States and an exhibition by Chinese-American visual artists.

Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Art Spaces Archive Project (ASAP). The consortium project will provide for the research and creation of a database, development of a Web site, surveying of art spaces nationally, and hosting of a national meeting for art space organizations to compare preservation strategies.

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
$37,000
To support Epoca de Oro: The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. The multidisciplinary project will examine the impact of Mexican film on Mexican, Chicano, and Latino heritage and culture.

Hallwalls, Inc. (consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
To support a consortium project to preserve multidisciplinary performance recordings. In partnership with SUNY Buffalo's Poetry and Rare Books Collection, the project will catalog, archive, preserve, and make accessible various video and audio recordings from the Hallwalls 1970s and 80s performance archives.

Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc.
New York, NY
$16,000
To support an annual journal and videotape collection, Artist & Influence. The project will document artists of color through videotaped interviews and the publication of a journal.

Helena Presents
Helena, MT
$15,000
To support Echoes of Discovery. The project is the sixth phase of the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Project and will support the creation of new multidisciplinary works that respond to the commemoration.

Iroquois Indian Museum
Howes Cave, NY
$20,000
To support At the Edge of the Clearing. The summer series and festivals will present traditional and contemporary Iroquois art and foster greater awareness of Iroquois heritage.

New Art Publications
New York, NY
$35,000
To support AMERICAS 2005. The annual issue of BOMB magazine will feature discussions among artists, writers, and musicians, and original translations of poetry and fiction, highlighting the work of artists living and practicing in Latin America and the Caribbean.

New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (on behalf of New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the documentation and preservation of dance and theater performances and oral histories by performing artists. As many as 18 performances and seven oral histories will be recorded, and 50 hours of audio materials will be preserved.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Bancroft Library)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
To support videotaped, oral history interviews with leading performance artists and dancers with disabilities. The project will include five to seven artists' interviews. DVDs of the videotaped interviews and transcripts will be made available and full-text oral histories will be accessible on-line.

Space One Eleven, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$20,000
To support the pilot phase of an annual Summer Youth Apprenticeship Program. The consortium will involve six young people in a project to document the legacy of three Alabama jazz legends as a means to cultivate Birmingham's jazz heritage.

MUSEUMS

Barnes Foundation
Merion Station, PA
$70,000
To support the research, writing, and publication of a catalog of the museum's collection of American paintings and works on paper. This will be the first publication documenting a unique collection of more than 300 American works of art.

Belmont, the Gari Melchers Estate and Memorial Gallery
Fredericksburg, VA
$10,000
To support Phase III of a preservation management plan for original furnishings in Gari Melchers' historic house. Following a conditions assessment (I) and a detailed treatment prioritization (II), Phase III will carry out the conservation treatment of as many as seven items in the museum's collection.

Brandywine Conservancy, Inc. (on behalf of Brandywine River Museum)
Chadds Ford, PA
$10,000
To support the production of an educational film on the making of the egg tempera medium and tempera paintings, with a brief history of tempera. The film will provide an academic introduction to this complex subject and will fill a significant gap in available information about the technique.

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the Archiving and Curating Project. The archive documents the development of the Chinese community in Southern California from the 1880s to the 1930s.

Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support a post-graduate internship in paper conservation. The project will involve training in the treatment of works on paper such as drawings, prints, and watercolors as well as manuscripts, maps, photographs, parchment, and books.

Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support conservation treatment of key furniture pieces and important frames for paintings in the American art collection. Dating from the 18th to the early 20th century, the works are anchors of the museum's comprehensive survey of American art.

DeEtte Holden Cummer Museum Foundation
Jacksonville, FL
$10,000
To support the conservation treatment of paintings in the permanent collection. The museum has a collection of nearly 4,000 objects from many ages and cultures.

Detroit Historical Society
Detroit, MI
$10,000
To support a condition assessment survey and a treatment and maintenance recommendations report for the city's outdoor art collection. Due to citywide budget cuts, the society has recently inherited responsibility for the city's collection of public art from the Department of Parks and Recreation.

di Rosa Preserve: Art and Nature
Napa, CA
$20,000
To support the Collection Care Program. The project will address the long-term conservation needs of this major collection of northern California art through a collaboration with the Department of Art and Art History at Sonoma State University.

Eastman Memorial Foundation
Laurel, MS
$35,000
To support the conservation and exhibition of the museum's Native-American basket collection. The exhibition will present as many as 230 baskets made by weavers from 68 tribes, spanning the last two centuries.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (consortium)
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
To support a consortium project to conduct a scientific examination of the technical components of a number of Georgia O'Keeffe's (1887-1986) works in various American museum collections. The project, conducted with the Whitney Museum of American Art, will be the first to investigate the artist's studio practices.

Harvard University (on behalf of Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology)
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
To support the digitization and the creation of a Web site to access the Peabody Museum's collection of North American Historic-board prints. The collection includes the first photographs of archaeological excavations and earliest efforts at ethnographic photography in the United States.

Heard Museum
Phoenix, AZ
$45,000
To support the reinstallation of the permanent collection of Southwest Native American art. The 10,000 square-foot exhibition will present more than 2,700 objects. The reinstallation will present a culturally sensitive interpretation of the art of indigenous American people.

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
$20,000
To support expansion of the Maryland ArtSource Web site. The site enables Maryland institutions to inform the public about the unique collections held by regional museums, libraries, and arts organizations.

Josef Albers Foundation, Inc.
Bethany, CT
$20,000
To support the Archives Organization Project. The project is a comprehensive effort to inventory, preserve, and make accessible the foundation's voluminous archives, which contains correspondence, photographs, and other materials from the late arts educators Josef and Anni Albers.

Judd Foundation
Marfa, TX
$10,000
To support the first phase of research and cataloging of American artist Donald Judd's (1928-94) archives. This initial stage will lead to a catalogue raisonne of the artist's life's work.

Lyme Historical Society
Old Lyme, CT
$15,000
To support an exhibition of the work of American artist Willard Metcalf (1858-1925), with accompanying catalog and education programs. The exhibition will explore Metcalf's contribution to American Impressionist art in general and to the Old Lyme Art Colony in particular.

Millicent Rogers Museum, Inc.
Taos, NM
$25,000
To support the publication of a catalog of the extensive collection of work by Native American potter Maria Poveka Martinez (1889-1980). The catalog will accompany the expansion and reinstallation of the current Martinez exhibition, scheduled to open in 2006.

Nelson Gallery Foundation
Kansas City, MO
$35,000
To support the publication of a catalog of German and Netherlandish paintings circa 1450-1600 in the permanent collection. The catalog will make a significant contribution to scholarship by combining previously published information with new research including extensive technical analysis.

Northeast Document Conservation Center (consortium)
Andover, MA
$20,000
To support a consortium project providing a one-year internship in paper conservation. In partnership with the New England Museum Association, the intern will also be trained to provide technical assistance in collections care to smaller museums in the region.

Ohio University Main Campus (on behalf of Kennedy Museum of Art)
Athens, OH
$20,000
To support the installation of the Kennedy Museum's Southwest Native-American collection. The collection is comprised of more than 700 weavings and 1,200 jewelry items representing all major historical periods of Navajo textile and silverwork production.

Schwenkfelder Library
Pennsburg, PA
$17,000
To support conservation treatment of works by fraktur artist Susanna Heebner (1750-1818) in the permanent collection. With roots extending back to medieval illuminated manuscripts, fraktur is a highly decorative style blending motifs and religious or inspirational text on a single sheet of paper.

Spanish Colonial Arts Society, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support and increase the scope of education projects in the traditional Hispanic arts. The program is targeted to underserved urban and rural communities in New Mexico. Hispanic artists from the community will be placed in local classrooms and workshops, fostering life-long learning in the arts and the preservation of Hispanic cultural traditions.

Textile Conservation Workshop, Inc.
South Salem, NY
$18,000
To support a master apprenticeship for in-depth training in textile conservation. As part of a regional conservation laboratory, the apprenticeship program fills a gap not covered by formal conservation courses in graduate school programs.

University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. (on behalf of Spencer Museum of Art)
Lawrence, KS
$30,000
To support the digital documentation and cataloging of objects in the Spencer Museum's permanent collection. The data will be input into the Museum Plus database so the objects will be substantively and visually accessible to staff, visitors, and users of the online library.

University of Rochester (on behalf of Memorial Art Gallery)
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support the publication of a catalog and the creation of a Web site of the Memorial Art Gallery's American art collection. The project is the second in a three-phase initiative titled Seeing America, which uses the American collection as an important educational and community resource, thereby raising the collection's visibility.

Vermont Museum & Gallery Alliance
Woodstock, VT
$20,000
To support fieldwork in the area of collections management and exhibition. The project will provide technical assistance through a series of multi-day "boot camp" workshops for museum staff and volunteers.

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
Santa Fe, NM
$15,000
To support the development of appropriate conservation treatments for the collection of Navajo folk art, toys, and pottery. The project will treat as many as 150 high priority objects from the collection.

MUSIC

Boise State University (on behalf of Boise Chamber Music Society)
Boise, ID
$7,000
To support chamber music concerts and residency activities. Two ensembles, eighth blackbird and the Miro String Quartet, will perform an evening concert, give a master class, and provide educational outreach concerts for underserved elementary students.

Borough of Manhattan Community College Performing Arts Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Lost Jazz Shrines:The Village Gate (Part 2), a concert series featuring music performed at historic, lower-Manhattan jazz venues. During 2005, the series will highlight artists who once played at the seminal Greenwich Village club, the Village Gate.

Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Inc.
Roslindale, MA
$20,000
To support compact disc recordings of works by American composers. Fourteen compact discs will represent either a premiere release or a new release of an out-of-print recording from a variety of composers, including Gunther Schuller, John Harbison, Michael Gandolfi, and Elliott Carter.

California State University, Long Beach Foundation (on behalf of California Institute for Preservation of Jazz)
Long Beach, CA
$20,000
To support a festival honoring the music of 1990 NEA Jazz Master Gerald Wilson. Activities will include the commissioning and performance of a new work by Wilson, master classes, and the initiation of a Gerald Wilson Collection archives.

California State University Los Angeles Auxiliary Services, Inc. (on behalf of Luckman Fine Arts Complex)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support Dolphy in Depth: 75 Years of the Life and Music of Eric Dolphy. The festival celebrating the great Los Angeles-born jazz musician and composer in performances by the Luckman Jazz Orchestra, under the leadership of James Newton, will also include a symposium featuring jazz scholars and collaborating musicians.

Chicago Classical Recording Foundation
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support a CD recording of the works of composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. The Chicago Sinfonietta, the New Black Music Repertory Ensemble Quartet, and other artists will perform on the recording.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Center for Black Music Research)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support performances of music of the African diaspora. The New Black Music Repertory Ensemble (New BMRE) will conduct six residencies in schools and community venues, performing a broad spectrum of African-American music styles and genres.

Concert Royal, Inc.
Larchmont, NY
$10,000
To support musicians' fees and workshop costs toward the development of Prince of Haiti/King of Paris, a new work for music and dance. Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Haitian independence, the work will juxtapose the French baroque music of 18th-century colonists with Haitian music of the same period.

Dale Warland Singers (consortium)
St. Paul, MN
$40,000
To support a consortium project to inventory, catalog, and transfer the chorus's 32-year historical archive and music library to a permanent repository. The archives will be at the University of Minnesota Library, making the contents more easily accessible to scholars, choral directors, composers, and the general public.

Dorian Woodwind Quintet Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support an archival, two compact disc set spanning the performance history of the quintet. In celebration of its 40th anniversary, the compendium will include numerous commissioned premieres and arrangements, as well as the performance of Anniversary Variations on a Theme by Reicha, a five-movement work created by five different composers.

Emory University (on behalf of General Libraries)
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
To support a conference on the life and musical legacy of composer, conductor, and educator William Levi Dawson (1899-1990). The four-day program will include performances of Dawson's choral, orchestral, and chamber works; conversations with scholars about his music; and discussions with noted composers and performers.

Gregg Smith Singers, Inc.
Yonkers, NY
$10,000
To support a compact disc recording of the early sacred works of American composer Charles Ives. The recording will include nine previously unrecorded church anthems as well as the 1902 cantata Celestial County, which was recorded in the 1970s by the chorus but is no longer available to the public.

Jazz Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the Chicago Jazz and Heritage Program, featuring concerts, workshops, and artist residencies in Chicago neighborhoods. Community outreach and learning opportunities will be provided for youth and adults throughout the city.

Louisville Orchestra, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$50,000
To support the Louisville Orchestra Preservation Project. The orchestra will continue documenting, cataloging, conserving, and disseminating its archival collections including its First Edition Recordings label.

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Pittsburgh, PA
$60,000
To support the Pittsburgh Jazz Legacy project. Components include archival recordings of the 18th-anniversary MCGJazz series, and a catalog of the Herbie Mann Archive. Each MCGJazz series concert will be recorded in both audio and video formats and will be added to the archive, currently consisting of more than 600 titles.

Melodious Accord, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the recording of choral music arranged or composed by Alice Parker. Two major choral works, Singers Glen and The Ponder Heart, will be recorded and released on Gothic Records/Loft Recording.

Minnesota Orchestral Association
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
To support the re-pressing and distribution of a 12 compact disc collection of recordings of historic performances by the Minnesota Orchestra. The set will be distributed to 1,000 music conservatories, schools of music, public libraries, and historical societies at no cost to recipients.

Music From China
New York, NY
$10,000
To support thematic concerts of new music for traditional Chinese instruments. The project will include string instrument training for youth and adults and performances at various sites in New York City.

National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the International Choral Festival of Negro Spirituals. Local, national, and international choirs will come together in Detroit for daily performances, workshops, clinics, lectures, and demonstrations for soloists and choruses.

New York Pops, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the recording of Nathaniel Shilkret's Concerto for Trombone and its release on compact disc. Under the artistic direction of Skitch Henderson, trombone soloist Jim Pugh and the orchestra will perform the work, originally commissioned in 1943 by swing legendTommy Dorsey.

Pegasus Musical Society
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support concerts celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of Francisco Courcelle (1705-78), principal composer of the 18th-century Court of Spain. Conducted by music director Grover Wilkins, the Orchestra of New Spain will perform concerts in Dallas as well as outreach to other communities.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$16,000
To support a CD recording of music by composer Pablo Ortiz. The recording will include Ortiz works composed between 1996 and 2003, performed by musicians from the ensemble and singers from San Francisco Chanticleer, and conducted by music director David Milnes.

University of Idaho
Moscow, ID
$20,000
To support the preservation of the Lionel Hampton Collections. Housed as part of the International Jazz Collections of the Lionel Hampton Center at the University of Idaho, the recordings will be readily available for study by scholars and students of jazz.

Washington Men's Camerata, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the National Library of Men's Choral Music and a compact disc recording of men's choral repertoire. The project will advance the multi-year development of an operational lending library and searchable database to safeguard collections of men's choral music, and will make the repertoire widely available for study and performance.

MUSICAL THEATER

City Center 55th Street Theater Foundation,Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the restoration, remounting, and staged concert productions of musicals and a concert in the City Center Encores! series. The annual series of rarely-heard American musicals is performed in City Center's 2,753-seat theater.

Deaf West Theatre Company, Inc.
North Hollywood, CA
$40,000
To support an education program provided to theaters participating in a 15-city tour of the musical Big River. As part of the tour, Deaf West Theatre Company will provide theater staff with a two-week, pre-show training program led by an American Sign Language master to help them better understand deaf culture, deaf accessibility, and the unique artistic approach required for successful sign-language theater.

Talking Band, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$12,000
To support a consortium tour of a music theater work. The Talking Band will partner with the Allied Arts Council of St. Joseph, Missouri, to present the musical Bitterroot as part of the 2004 Lewis and Clark Bicentennial celebration.

OPERA

Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the recording and distribution of a two compact-disc set of the opera Amistad, composed by Anthony Davis with libretto by Thulani Davis. The two-act opera is based on the Amistad revolt of 1839, a successful uprising of captives on a slave ship en route to America.

PRESENTING

Center for Cultural Exchange (consortium)
Portland, ME
$62,000
To support a consortium project to create sourcebooks, CDs, and DVDs for the Suitcase Projects. Produced in partnership with the Franco American Heritage Center, the thematic, multimedia materials will document the tour performances of leading traditional dancers and musicians from immigrant and refugee communities in the Northeast.

Minnesota STAR, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the sixth annual Nordic Roots Festival. The festival will present traditional music and children's theater from Scandinavian countries.

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
Flushing, NY
$50,000
To support the Latino Cultural Festival and the Latino Cultural Series. The festival will feature music, dance, theater, film, workshops, panel discussions, family-oriented performances, and an exhibition of contemporary Latino visual artists.

THEATER

Center for Hmong Arts & Talent (on behalf of Lee@aboutchat.org)
St. Paul, MN
$12,000
To support the production and tour of plays about Hmong culture and history in Minnesota and Wisconsin. A touring company of Hmong actors will perform a repertory of four plays developed to educate audiences about Hmong traditions and heritage and to create dialogue about social issues within the Hmong community.

El Teatro Campesino
San Juan Bautist, CA
$15,000
To support the production of a traditional miracle play. Professional and community artists will participate in the production of La Virgen del Tepeyac at the San Juan Bautista Mission.

GALA Inc., Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the production and translation of a classic Spanish play. Los Titeres de Cachiporra, or Tragicomedia de don Cristobal y la sena Rosita, by Federico Garcia Lorca, will be performed in Spanish with simultaneous English interpretation at GALA's new permanent performance facility.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support a consortium project to preserve and document the theatrical works of two theater companies. Cultural Odyssey and AfroSolo will partner in an archival project to document, display, and publish the historic contributions of each organization to honor the groups' 25th and 10th anniversaries, respectively.

New York University (on behalf of The Drama Review)
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the publication and distribution of four volumes of The Drama Review, an international journal of live performance. The Drama Review is committed to documenting important new work and to reassessing traditional notions of performance.

OLLANTAY Center for the Arts, Inc.
Jackson Heights, NY
$10,000
To support the publication and distribution of OLLANTAY Theater Magazine . The journal highlights Latino theater through essays and interviews by and with Latino artists and writers.

Theatre Development Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
To support Interpreting for the Theatre, an intensive one-week institute for theater sign language interpreters. The goal of the program is to support and preserve the art of sign-interpreting, set national standards of excellence in the field, and to ensure that theater is accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired audiences.

University of Montana (on behalf of Montana Repertory Theatre)
Missoula, MT
$12,000
To support the development and production of a new play that celebrates rodeo as an integral part of the culture of the American West. Playwright Jim McClure and musician Rob Quist will tour the Montana rodeo circuit to conduct research and collect materials from which to develop a script and score.

Wichita State University (consortium)
Wichita, KS
$15,000
To support a consortium project that will make an extensive collection of video interviews with leading American playwrights accessible in digital formats. The interviews are the product of an ongoing 22-year collaboration with the William Inge Theatre Festival.

VISUAL ARTS

American Society for Psychical Research, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support planning for the exhibition Phantom Images: Photography and Psychical Research in America from 1860 until Today. The project will examine early experimentation in the darkroom which resulted in the manipulation of images by combining two or more negatives.

American Tapestry Alliance
San Jose, CA
$5,000
To support the development and touring of a biennial exhibition and catalog of contemporary tapestry. The exhibition will include tapestry works from around the world and will travel to venues within the United States.

Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$16,000
To support an exhibition and catalog featuring the Cantonese art form of Shiwan ceramics. Curated by So Kam Ng, Professor of Asian Art History at San Francisco State University, the project is a collaboration between Asian and U.S. scholars.

Exit Art/The First World, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support a consortium project with Franklin Furnace to conserve, digitize, and make accessible online the archival material of Exit Art. Founded in 1982, Exit Art has presented contemporary work by as many as 1,600 artists in more than 200 exhibitions.

Fox Theater
Spokane, WA
$39,000
To support restoration and conservation of the original fire curtain and lobby murals of the FoxTheater. Designed in 1931 and saved by the Spokane community from demolition in 2000, the art deco theater presents cultural programming for the region.

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support restoration and reinstallation of a WPA mural painted in 1933 by Bernard Zakheim. Once restored, the mural will be reinstalled at the Jewish Community Center's new 135,000-square-foot facility.

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$24,000
To support an archival project to preserve the holdings of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Inc. (LACE). The archival holdings include thousands of slides, catalogs, correspondence, invitations, posters, and a vast video collection.

Maryland Art Place, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$20,000
To support a curatorial fellowship for an archival project to document the holdings and history of Maryland Art Place (MAP). Founded in 1980, MAP's archival holdings include thousands of slides, catalogs, correspondence, invitations, posters, and videos.

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
San Francisco, CA
$17,000
To support exhibitions, catalogs, and related programming featuring the work of contemporary Latino artists. Exhibitions will be curated by director Patricia Rodriguez and guest curators.

New Town Pasadena Foundation (on behalf of Village Green Owners Association)
Altadena, CA
$17,000
To support restoration of a mural painted in 1942 by Rico Lebrun. The mural restoration is part of a larger rehabilitation project at Village Green, a 68-acre National Historic Landmark.

Photography Institute
New York, NY
$17,000
To support the National Graduate Seminar (NGS) Archive Project. An annual forum for photographers, scholars, historians, and critics, the project will allow for the transfer of more than 800 video and audio tapes and texts created since the Institute's inception in 1991.

Simpson College
Indianola, IA
$10,000
To support an archival project for the photography of Don Berry, an American photographer who documented a rural Iowa county between 1920 and 1970. The collection was given to Simpson College in 1997 and is in serious disarray.

Total Heritage & Preservation grants: 197
Total Heritage & Preservation dollars: $4,238,000

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