Artistic Equipment and Tools Round IV
Elaine Buckholtz San Francisco
Elaine Buckholtz is an artist with a background in lighting design and light based installation. Her work explores the medium of light as both an ephemeral phenomenon and as an intervention to unmask hidden aspects of architectural forms found in urban settings and landscapes. Elaine will use her grant to purchase video equipment for large scale installation work that interfaces with architectural elements and nature.
Adam Greene San Diego
Adam Greene is a composer of instrumental music whose work often explores connections between language and music, both as an expression of a personal, poetic perspective and as a means of inviting a performer’s commitment to the interpretation of unfamiliar musical terrain. His recent music has been steeped in the Classics, exploring dramatic themes that are archetypal, yet chillingly poignant. Adam will use his grant to purchase equipment for the purpose of high quality digital recording, editing, and synthesis of musical sound.
Ruth Gumnit San Francisco
Director/Producer/Cinematographer Ruth Gumnit is an award-winning filmmaker whose honors include an NEA/Rockefeller Interdisciplinary Artist Award, Grand Jury Best Documentary award from the Washington D. C. Independent Film Festival, Judges and Audience Awards from the San Diego Women’s Film Festival and Director’s Citation Award from the Black Maria Film Festival. Her last film, "Don’t Fence Me In: Major Mary and the Karen Refugees from Burma” has screened worldwide and been used as a public policy, fundraising, community building, and educational tool for refugee rights. Ruth will use her grant to acquire production equipment needed to complete her current film project "Tomboys and Ladies."
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Hirokazu Kosaka Torrance
Born in Japan, Hirokazu Kosaka is an ordained Shingon Buddhist priest, a master of the art of Japanese archery, Calligrapher, as well as the Artistic Director of the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center. After graduating from the Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles in 1970, he has been actively advocating Japanese culture and art at JACCC. Hirokazu will use his grant for Calligraphy tools.
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John Jota LeañosSan Francisco
John Jota Leaños is a social art practitioner and who utilizes all and any media to engage in diverse cultural arenas through strategic revealing, tactical disruption, and symbolic wagon burning. His practice includes a range of new media, photography, public art, installation, and performance focusing on the convergence of memory, social space and decolonization that has been shown internationally. Leaños is currently an Assistant Professor of Social Documentation at the University of California, Santa Cruz. With his CCI Investing in Artist grant, Leaños will acquire critical audio equipment and dancer costumes for the multimedia performance, "Imperial Silence: Una pera Muerta / A Dead Opera in Four Acts."
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Allison Lowell Los Angeles
Alison Lowell is a musician dedicated to the performance of new works and expanding the repertoire for the oboe. She has performed at numerous festivals such as the Lucerne Festival Academy under the baton of Pierre Boulez, and holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Southern California. As co-director of the new-music ensemble Out of Context, she has given performances and master classes across the country featuring contemporary works and transcriptions. Alison will use her grant to purchase an extended-range oboe in order to promote new works for the instrument and present them as part of a series of concerts and tours starting in 2010. www.alisonlowell.com
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Rachel Rosenthal Los Angeles
A winner of OBIE, Rockefeller, Getty, NEA and CAA awards among others, Rachel Rosenthal is an interdisciplinary theatre artist who has toured her works nationally and internationally since 1975. She is currently Artistic Director of The Rachel Rosenthal Company, where in addition to presenting her 'TOHUBOHU! Extreme Theatre Ensemble", she teaches her signature brand of improvisational theater. Her book "The DbD Experience--Chance Knows What It's Doing" will be available through Routledge in December 2009. Rachel will use her grant to upgrade the lighting and sound equipment in her studio space.
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Amelia Clara RudolphSan Francisco
Amelia Rudolph is a choreographer and dancer-athlete who works in the theater and site-specifically in urban and natural sites. She is artistic director of Project Bandaloop with whom she has been making dances that reframe how people view dance since 1991. This grant will support design innovations and advanced technical rigging to broaden the choreographic possibilities for the multi-dimensional dances that she creates.
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Mei Ann TeoOakland
Mei Ann Teo is a film and theatre maker whose work springs from a place of documentary and personal history. She believes in the revolutionary power of listening and learning from real experiences from the margins of society that have been transformed, remixed, and retold. Mei Ann will use her grant to purchase film editing and production equipment for her film and video projects.
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Jose VencesLos Angeles
Jose Vences is the artistic director and founder of the award winning Grandeza Mexicana Folk Ballet Company. Mr. Vences was a principal dancer with the world famous Ballet Folklorico de Mexico and is dedicated to promoting innovative styles of traditional Mexican folk dance. Jose will use his grant to improve the air conditioning equipment, bathroom renovation, and a new sound system for his dance space.
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Artistic Innovation Round IV
Ana Maria Alvarez Los Angeles
Ana Maria Alvarez is a choreographer, performer and community organizer. Her dance company CONTRA-TIEMPO (www.contra-tiempo.org), a critically acclaimed Urban-Latin dance theater company that blends Salsa, Afro-Cuban and elements of contemporary and hip hop with political dance theater has toured all over the US and Latin America, including most recently to Lincoln Center (NYC) and to Cuba. With her grant, Ana Maria will develop a new dance theater work for her company based on the timeless tale of the "Alchemist". The work will bring to life the rising complexity of the globalization of our music, dance, food; the importance of acknowledging history, and ultimately trusting our hearts. Photo: Tyrone Domingo
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Lincoln Basaing (Ledoh) San Francisco
Ledoh is an internationally-renowned multi-media performance artist. Ledoh trained in Kyoto, Japan under Butoh Master Katsura Kan, and has since electrified audiences around the globe for over 18 years with his riveting solo and ensemble performances. Born into the Ka-Ren hilltribe, Ledoh came to America at age 11 to escape the oppression of his people by the brutal dictatorship holding power in Burma. As Artistic Director of SALT FARM, Ledoh choreographs with a raw movement vocabulary and directs the production of sets, video art, and musical scores to create a vital, visceral brand of live theater and site-specific installations that can soothe then shock within the span of a timeless moment. Ledoh will use his grant to develop the first phase of ""Suicide Barrier: Illusions of Security"", a multimedia dance performance integrating his original choreography with environmental video by Perry Hallinan. Photo credit-Andy Mogg
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Natalie Bookchin Los Angeles
Natalie Bookchin's videos and installations address conditions of global connectivity and the impact of everyday uses of new technologies on how we see, represent, and understand ourselves and the world around us. She lives and works in Los Angeles, where she is co-Director of the Photography & Media Program in the Art School at CalArts. Natalie will use her grant to develop a new project entitled Testament, a multi-channel video installation that will offer a collective portrait of individuals in our epoch of global digital connectivity through collectively told first person vignettes, stories, and meditations on life, the economy, illness, the war, and work compiled from hundreds of fragments from online video diaries.
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Charya C. 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 grant to create, Blossoming Antiquities: Rodin’s Encounter with the Celestial Dancers of Cambodia, a dance piece with live visual art and original music inspired by the 1906 visit of the Royal Cambodian Ballet to France.
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Linda Goldstein Knowlton West Hollywood
The Sisterhood focuses on the lives of four teenaged girls who were adopted as babies from China to the U.S., and are now old enough to articulate their struggles towards making connections between their pasts, presents, and futures. Her goal is to start a new discussion on race, identity, and family in America from the point of view of these young women, who offer a perspective that we haven’t heard from until now. Photo Credit: Leanna Creel (www.creelphoto.com)
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Kompiang Metri-Davies Richmond
Kompiang Metri-Davies was born in Bali, Indonesia where she studied traditional dance starting at age five. She is the director of Gadung Kasturi Balinese Dance & Music Inc., a 501 c 3 nonprofit organization based in Richmond, CA. Kompiang will use her grant for the creation of a new Balinese traditional offering dance entitled "Nyapuh Jagat."
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Danial Nord San Pedro
Danial Nord is a media artist who reinterprets the familiar language and trappings of mass communication. Nord’s provocative installations draw from his accomplishments as an award winning designer-animator in the entertainment industry. His agile manipulation of color, light, motion and sound catches viewers in a cycle of seduction and confrontation. With his grant, Danial will develop a process to reconfigure video as flexible form, using customized arrays of LED’s to place moving imagery inside sculptural objects and dimensional spaces, transcending the limitations of standard projectors and monitors.
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Julie Orser Los Angeles
Julie Orser received a MFA in Studio Art from California Institute of the Arts, and her videos, photography, and multi-channel installations have exhibited internationally in museums, galleries and festivals. Julie currently teaches at Scripps College and is the New Genres Lab Supervisor in the Department of Art at the University of California Los Angeles. In 2006, she co-founded ART OFFICE for Film & Video to connect, curate, share and show artists working in time-based media. The CCI Investing in Artists grant was awarded for the partial funding of a documentary project Julie is co-directing with filmmaker Jon Irving. www.julieorser.com http://artoffice.org
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Suzan L. Pitt Los Angeles
Suzan L. Pitt is an award-winning artist who has found success in animated films, art exhibits, multi-media presentations, and theatre for over three decades. Always exploring the limits of the animated form, her dream-like films are a dazzling eyeful of the vibrant, surrealist and strange. Suzan will use her grant for “Visitation” an animated exploration of visual gothic language, darkly unwinding through a hand painted heavenly hell of unending life and death; steeped in the alchemical and the inner dream life the film explores a roughly crafted landscape of gothic creatures, architectures and evolving dramas without end.
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Mythili Prakash Los Angeles
Mythili Prakash is recognized as one of the world’s leading young exponents of Bharata Natyam - the classical dance of South India. Her inventive approach to classicism revitalizes Bharata Natyam and awakens the physicality, musicality and expressive theatricality of the dance to create an exceptional style that is distinct and meaningful to audiences across the world. Mythili will use her grant to fund the choreographic process (including research, script, music composition, dance choreography, and technical choreography) of my new touring work, "Shakti - the Sacred Force."
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Marcus A. 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 travel and commissioning support for a trip to Alabama (Selma, Birmingham, Montgomery) and Tennessee (Memphis) to research and then develop material for an oratorio for jazz orchestra and boys choir about the life of Martin Luther King Jr. www.marcusshelby.com
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Wayne Vitale El Sobrante
Wayne Vitale is a composer, performer, teacher, and scholar who has immersed himself in the music of Bali, Indonesia for more than thirty years. He's currently creating a large-scale multimedia project, Makrokosma Bali (working title), that will combine new music for gamelan orchestra with projected NASA and JPL imagery of the solar system and beyond; to premiere in November 2009 in San Francisco. Wayne will use his grant to support the creative/technical development process of PLANETS, a multimedia work involving new music for Balinese gamelan orchestra and projected NASA and JPL video imagery, to take place at San Francisco State University preceding the Nov. 2010 world premiere at the Exploratorium, San Francisco.
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Kristina Wong, Los Angeles
Kristina Wong is developing CAT LADY, her fourth full-length theater piece. Via cat ladies, pick-up artists, and her cat’s spraying problems, the show explores how human communication is relearned in the digital age. CCI Funds will allow her to complete a second stage of development for this work. www.kristinawong.com
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