Artistic Equipment and Tools Implementation Grants Round I
Bill Fontana San Francisco
Bill Fontana is internationally known for his experimental work using sound as a sculptural medium. He has worked since the late 60's in developing his unique art form and has realized sound sculptures and radio projects for museums and broadcast organizations around the world. Bill received a grant from CCI to acquire a portable SoundField Microphone and 4 channel hard disk recorder to make high resolution surround recordings of sonic landscapes and acoustic spaces, furthering his ability to create and document his sound sculptures.
www.resoundings.org
Amy Franceschini San Francisco
Amy Franceschini works with notions of community, sustainable environments and a perceived conflict between humans and nature. Her work manifests "on" and "offline" in the form of dynamic websites, installations, open-access laboratories, and educational formats that collectively question or challenge the cultural, social, and economic systems we live in. Her work is pervaded with images of growth, reminding us that both nature and our own creative natures are precious commodities that must be nurtured and sustained whether it is on the web or in our own backyards. Amy’s grant was for audio/video equipment to present the multipart project, Gardening Silicon Valley Superfund Sites, in various configurations for future exhibitions and greater public distribution.
www.futurefarmers.com
Kompiang Metri-Davies Richmond
Kompiang Metri-Davies is a native of Bali, Indonesia, where she learned the traditional arts of music and dance from the age of five. She has been living, dancing, and teaching in the Bay Area for 15 years, working in traditional and multi-cultural modes, and is now the Director of Gadung Kasturi, a non-profit dance and music ensemble, for which she also provides choreography, arrangements, and costumes. Under the auspices of Gadung Kasturi, she also teaches dance to children and adults. Kompiang will use her grant to purchase a partial gamelan ensemble of instruments from Bali in order to facilitate the rehearsal process with dancers and musicians.
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David Roussève Pasadena
David Roussève is a choreographer, writer, and performer. His dance/theater company, David Roussève/reality, has toured throughout Europe, South America, and the United States, including three engagements at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival. Among others he has created commissioned work for Houston Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theater, Ballet Hispanico, and Dancing Wheels. With his grant, David will acquire portable metal frames with projection screens and the digital projector needed to incorporate technology-based visual imagery into current and future performance works. back to top of page
Joan Takayama-Ogawa Pasadena
Joan Takayama-Ogawa’s ceramics are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, South Korea; Princessehof Leewarden Nationaal Keramiek Museum, Netherlands; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. She received her Bachelors of Arts at UCLA, Masters of Arts at Stanford University, and ceramic education at Otis College of Art and Design, in Los Angeles. Joan’s grant will allow her to purchase a new energy efficient front loading electric kiln, which will enable her to expand her work from teapots to include mixed media public sculpture and paintings using one-part clay.
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Hank Willis Thomas Oakland
Hank Willis Thomas is a media artist whose work largely deals with the relationship between African American culture and advertising. His current video installation project Question Bridge: Black male/Blackmail is a collaboration with artist Chris Johnson. Hank will use his grant to purchase a high-definition professional video camera with accessories and sound recording equipment. This equipment will allow him to complete experimental documentary interview and installation projects, marking a new venture for the artist into community-based work.
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David Wilson Culver City
David Wilson is the Founding Director of the Museum of Jurassic Technology (MJT) www.mjt.org. Since its inception in 1988, the Museum has expanded both in terms of its public offerings, through exhibitions and associated programs, as well as in its public recognition and reputation. In addition, David has produced six independent films, most recently under the auspices of MJT in conjunction with Kabinet, an arts based cultural institution located in St. Petersburg, Russia. David’s grant will allow him to purchase high-definition digital-cinema editing equipment and software to aid in the processing, editing, sound design, as well as HD-DVD authoring and production of current and future filmmaking projects. Photograph by Lena Herzog back to top of page
Presenting and Marketing Work Planning Grants Round I
Idris Ackamoor San Francisco
Idris Ackamoor is a multi-instrumentalist,
composer, actor, tap dancer, director, videographer, producer and founder
and Executive/Co-Artistic Director of the San Francisco performance company
Cultural Odyssey (www.culturalodyssey.org).
Idris’ primary instrument is the alto saxophone and he has performed
with some of the most renowned musicians and performers in America. Idris
received a planning grant from CCI to develop a distribution plan in partnership
with technology specialists in music and web marketing in order to reach
new audiences, communities, and presenters for his musical work. Photo
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Ana Maria Alvarez Los Angeles
Ana Maria Alvarez,
dancer and choreographer, is the Artistic Director of CONTRA-TIEMPO (www.contra-tiempo.org),
a critically acclaimed Urban-Latin dance theater company that blends Salsa,
Afro-Cuban and elements of Hip Hop with political dance theater. As an
artist, she is dedicated to engaging a diverse audience with courageous
and compelling performance and outreach work that sparks social change
and uplifts her local community and beyond. With her planning grant, Ana
Maria will develop a comprehensive plan targeting venues and booking agents
in order to increase presentation opportunities and widen the range of
potential audiences for the long term. back
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Katherine Aoki Santa Clara
Since
receiving her MFA in printmaking in 1994, Katherine Aoki has exhibited
her narrative, gender-based work in local, national, and international
venues. Her prints and artist books can be found in the permanent collections
of SFMOMA, the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, the Harvard University
Art Museums, the City of Seattle, and the New York Public Library. Katherine
received a grant for strategic planning to develop a pop-up book, from
existing artwork, which will be distributed to a wider audience that extends
beyond the gallery context.
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Charya Burt Windsor
Charya Burt (www.charyaburt.com) is an award-winning Cambodian classical
and folk dance master, choreographer and instructor trained by the foremost
dance artists of Cambodia. A former dance faculty member at The Royal University
of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Charya has been performing, teaching, conducting
workshops, and developing innovative new works in the United States since
1993. Charya will use her planning grant to work with a marketing consultant
to assist with public relations and the development an extensive direct
mailing list. She will also work with a webmaster to create a new website.
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Scott Constable Sebastopol
Scott Constable
is a woodworker who uses his craft to explore the social and philosophical
issues of everyday life. He is co-founder of Wowhaus (www.thewowhaus.com),
whose interdisciplinary, community-based projects span contemporary art
and design. Scott will use his CCI grant to identify effective strategies
for increasing the recognition and distribution of his work through an
integrated plan that makes the most of recent interest in his trans-disciplinary,
ecological approach to "conceptual craft". back
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Lia Cook Berkeley
Lia Cook is currently Professor of Art at California College of the Arts.
She works in a variety of media, usually combining weaving and painting,
photography and digital technology. Her work explores the sensuality of
fabric and the human response of touch. Lia has exhibited her work nationally
and internationally, and was recently included in the "National Design
Triennial: Design Life Now" at the Cooper-Hewitt in New York. With
her grant, Lia will hire a consultant to evaluate current marketing practices
and develop a focused and targeted marketing plan to expand audiences in
the broader art market.
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Chitresh Das San Francisco
Pandit Chitresh Das is one of Kathak's great
master artists, as well as a choreographer, composer and guru. He is one
of the few masters performing the Kathak solo with the dynamism, depth
of artistry, and virtuosity that make it representative of the true tradition
and relevant to modern audiences. Pandit Das received a grant to research
and conduct outreach to South Asian and non-South Asian presenters with
a potential interest in presenting his performance of the traditional Kathak
solo.
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Paul S. Flores San Francisco
Paul S. Flores is a nationally prominent spoken
word artist, a published poet, playwright, and award winning novelist,
who also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.
Raised on the Tijuana/San Diego border, issues of immigration, border experience
and Latino identity are central to his work. Paul’s grant will aid
him in the development of a new national marketing strategy around the
performance piece REPRESENTA! Bilingual Theatre for the Hip Hop Generation.
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Margaret Jenkins San Francisco
Margaret Jenkins is an accomplished and well-respected leader in the cultural
fabric of San Francisco. She is a choreographer, teacher, and mentor to
many young artists as well as a designer of unique community-based dance
projects, all of which are detailed on her website, www.mjdc.org.
Margaret will use her grant for the planning phase of a marketing and public
relations initiative surrounding the return performances of A Slipping
Glimpse in San Francisco. back
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Nancy Keystone Los Angeles
Nancy Keystone is
a director, playwright, designer, and visual artist. She is the founder
and Artistic Director of Critical Mass Performance Group (www.criticalmasspg.org),
whose latest piece Apollo [Parts 1&2] premiered at Center Theater Group’s
Kirk Douglas Theatre in 2005. She is currently developing Apollo [Part
3]: Liberation, which will premiere at Portland Center Stage (Oregon) in
2009. Nancy’s grant will help facilitate strategic planning with
a professional arts consultant for expanded marketing, promotion and touring
of her multi-disciplinary performance work. Photograph from Apollo [Part
1]: Lebensraum. back to
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Alonzo King San Francisco
Choreographer Alonzo King’s
original and innovative work uses the language of dance to express the
essence of the human experience and to reveal the spirit that animates
all forms. Creating work with artistic collaborators from around the globe,
King’s work seeks to exemplify
human nobility, power and grace. King founded LINES Ballet (www.linesballet.org)
in 1982 and has created over 60 works for the company in the past 25 years.
Alonzo’s grant will be used to support planning
costs associated with a proposed domestic and international tour of Long
River High Sky, featuring LINES Ballet and Shaolin monk collaborators. Photograph
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Suzanne Lacy Marina
del Rey
Suzanne Lacy is an
artist and writer whose work includes large-scale public performances and
installations, photographs and text on issues of social justice and equity.
She is Chair of the new Master's in Fine Arts: Public Practices at Otis
College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Suzanne will use her grant for
preliminary planning, consultation, and development of materials leading
to a comprehensive marketing campaign to increase the visibility of her
artwork among gallerist and curators in the United States and abroad.
www.suzannelacy.com back
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Cherylene Lee San Francisco
Cherylene Lee is a fourth
generation Chinese American playwright who has been writing plays for over
20 years that explore the Asian American experience. Her plays have been
produced throughout the United States, her poetry and fiction have been
widely published in anthologies and textbooks for young adults, and she
is currently working on a memoir of her days as a child performer in Hollywood.
With her grant, Cherylene will develop a plan for marketing a collection
of 15 plays by researching potential publishers and transcribing, proof-reading,
and formatting plays in preparation for publication. She will also develop
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Juan Morales Wasco Juan Morales is a mariachi performing artist, instructor, transcriber and arranger with more than 25 years of experience. Since moving to the Central Valley in 1998, he has collaborated with numerous school districts and community-based foundations to establish and develop mariachi programs for youth and early learners. Juan will use his grant to develop a strategy for marketing mariachi music for educational purposes and examining the possibility of launching a mariachi music publishing company.
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Alison Pebworth San Francisco
Alison Pebworth has been developing street
side projects locally and nationally since 2004 with The Roadside Show & Tell
(www.roadsideshowandtell.com),
a portable roadside attraction that engages passersby in experimental artistic
processes. Following an eight month journey across the country with the
Roadside Show & Tell, Looking for Lost America, she is developing a
new traveling show, Beautiful Possibility: a series of side-show banners
that combine historical and contemporary images with enigmatic phrases,
asking viewers to rethink how we gather, record, and present American history
and culture. Allison will use her grant to organize a coast-to-coast tour
with the Roadside Show and Tell project featuring her sideshow banners
telling researched stories of "Lost America".
Favianna Rodriguez Oakland
Favianna Rodriguez is an Oakland-based printmaker and institution
builder. Her dynamic political prints and posters tell a history of social
justice, capturing the daily sentiments of a people in daily struggle.
Favianna’s work attempts
to reclaim public space – community centers, streets, billboards – and
to redefine that space through art, youth workshops, and the establishment
of collective cultural spaces. With her grant, Favianna will develop a
media outreach strategy in order to reach a larger audience base for her
political and activist oriented work, helping to shift and change ideas
around art and social change.
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Marcus Shelby San Francisco
Marcus Shelby is an award winning composer,
arranger, educator, and bassist working in San Francisco. His credits include
original scoring for film, theater, and dance as well as jazz composition
for his own groups, the 15-piece Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra and the Marcus
Shelby Trio. He is nationally recognized for his innovative and collaborative
approach to composing and arranging for text, the visual arts, dance, and
theater and for his commitment to using jazz to narrate the rich history
of African Americans. Marcus will use his grant to develop and distribute
work sample materials for the performance-based educational program Harriett
Tubman and Jazz and to develop the marketing and distribution plan for
the CD release of the jazz oratorio Harriet Tubman: Bound for the Promised
Land.
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Wang Wei Oakland
Percussionist, Wang Wei is a master of the traditional
music of Northern China, as well as the percussion styles of Africa, Europe,
and the Middle East. He is the founder of the North America Chinese Percussion
Society, which actively promotes Chinese traditional percussion through
concerts, workshops and lectures around the United States. Wang is currently
developing a neo-Chinese dagu touring ensemble incorporating cross-cultural
ideas and explorations. With his grant, Wang will develop a business plan
for touring with his dagu ensemble in order to reach new audiences in major
venues and cities around the United States. back
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Kristina Wong Los Angeles
Kristina
Wong is a nationally presented solo performer, writer, actor, educator,
activist, and filmmaker. Her body of performance work includes short and
full-length solo performance works, street theater stunts, subversive internet
installations, plays, and sketch comedy. She was recently awarded the Creative
Capital Award in Theater and a Creation Fund from the National Performance
Network. Kristina will use her grant from CCI to hire consultants to do
the initial planning and marketing work required to increase visibility
and launch a multiyear tour of her solo performance work, Wong Flew Over
the Cuckoo's Nest, at national and international spaces.
Photograph by Jen Cleary
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Rene Yung San Francisco
Rene Yung is an
artist, writer, educator, and designer, who explores issues of culture
and belonging in cross-disciplinary works that span studio and socially-engaged
practices. A native of Hong Kong, she has exhibited nationally and
internationally, including in TransCulture, part of the 46th Venice
Biennale, and has conducted numerous community cultural development
and public art projects. Rene will use her grant to develop a marketing
strategy and a website that will create a unified presentation around
a diverse body of work by contextualizing the interrelated explorations
in her installation, community-based, and public artworks. back
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