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DAVID SCHMALENBERGER, a professor of music and drummer from Duluth, will spend two and a half weeks in Kenya and Tanzania, East Africa. He will study the traditional music, rhythms and culture of East Africa which he will incorporate into his solo playing and ensemble work.

Artist ELAINE GAN, Brooklyn, New York, will travel to Manila, Philippines, to research, locate and document various spatial forms, urban zones and gated communities that reflect uneven geographical development and growing disparities in distributions of capital/commonwealth. Gan is an artist working in the public domain to reconfigure urban spaces, social roles and popular images. Her research will focus on spatial forms, urbanization processes and human migrations/displacements that have shifted or developed as a result of specific sociopolitical events beginning with the 1986 People Power Revolution. She seeks to construct a visual constellation of built environments as spatial products linked to contemporary neoliberal and postcolonial occupations.

THE LOFT LITERARY CENTER, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $100,000 in support of the Mentor Series. This large, comprehensive and independent literary center serves over 600,000 writers and readers of all ages each year. Its mission is to foster a writing community, the artistic development of individual writers and an audience for literature. The Loft received support for the Mentor Program, initiated in 1979 as a vehicle for emerging Minnesota writers to work in small group settings with nationally recognized writers, and to be mentored by them in various ways ranging from review of their work to providing inspiration and examples for a writing life. Twelve emerging Minnesota-based writers (four in poetry, four in fiction, and four in creative non-fiction) are selected through a competitive process to work intensively with six nationally acclaimed writers (two in each genre). The program includes individual conferences, group sessions, craft seminars, manuscript conferences and public readings.

RED EYE COLLABORATION, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $40,000 in support of its work with emerging creative artists and for debt reduction. Founded in 1983 by Artistic Director Steve Busa and Managing Director Miriam Must, Red Eye presents multimedia theater, functioning as producer and developer of experimental art in a creative laboratory setting. Red Eye produces a Works-in-Progress series and Isolated Acts, both of which encourage artists to define new parameters for the stage. Jerome subsidy is appropriately committed to these programs because they include a large number of emerging artists working to test ideas. For these two series and other opportunities throughout the year for emerging artists, Red Eye received $35,000. In recognition of Red Eyes importance to artists, a one-time commitment of $5,000 was authorized for debt reduction.

RICHARD SOLLY, a writer, will spend two weeks in Gibonston, Florida, to undertake research for a book of poems about the experience of pain and disability.

JAMES DOWELL/JOHN KOLOMVAKIS (previous recipients), were awarded funding for Ned Rorem: Word and Music, a feature-length portrait of Ned Rorem, the Pulitzer Prize winning composer and diarist. Through this engaging man, the viewer will be provided with a window into the music and literary world of the last sixty years. His diaries revealed a sexual candor in this form unseen before. His music has a clarity that has made him a role model for many young composers.