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Support was awarded to RAMON ALBERTO NUEZ for Concrete Jungles: The True Story of Street Kids in America, a feature-length documentary that looks at the unsettling story of street kids (homeless, runaway, at-risk and outcast) in America. It will examine the invisibility in a largely apathetic society. It will also look at youth outreach programs, what they do, their importance to kids in need, and their struggles to remain operational in a sharply reduced funding environment. Nuez will employ stylistically unusual production elements to make his film both appealing and relevant to the very youth it examines.

Founded in 1989, COLLABORATIVE URBAN SCULPTURE PROJECTS, Brooklyn, New York, supports community-based art projects that foster collaborations among artists and social service organizations. It creates innovative venues for emerging visual and performing artists, and engages diverse audiences in the experience of these works. Jerome funding of $15,000 was authorized for Witness, a public art work by BRADLEY MCCALLUM, which will present experiences of police-related violence in New York City in a series of public art installations. The piece will be installed at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine and in communities where incidences of police-related violence have occurred. Audio and sculptural elements will document specific histories of the victims. The working concept for the site-specific sculptures is to create cast iron units, similar to fire department call boxes, installed at street intersections throughout the five counties that comprise New York City.

CRUCIBLE, St. Paul, Minnesota, received a grant of $15,000 to support professional development programs for artists working in glass. The Crucible Glass Project offers intensive workshops taught by acclaimed artists, hosts public lectures, organizes exhibitions and promotes critical dialogue. Jerome funding will support a hot glass workshop, a casting workshop and a fellowship for an artist of color.

Jazz artist DONALD WASHINGTON will travel to Detroit, Michigan, to conduct a reunion of the Bird-Trane-SCO-Now! Ensemble which he founded twenty years ago. The ensemble is named for jazz greats Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Roscoe Mitchell.

SALLY ROUSSE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, will travel to Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany, to engage in an aesthetic dialogue and reflection with dance artists of the Forsythe Company. Rousse will explore a potential collaboration and continued exchange with Noah Gelber, an American born choreographer currently working in Germany as a choreographic assistant with the renowned Forsythe Company. This study will serve to deepen her choreographic practice mixing classical and modern ballet as inspired by the approach of The Forsythe Company.

A grant of $23,000 was authorized to MEET THE COMPOSER, New York City, in support of the participation of emerging composers from Minnesota and New York City in the Meet The Composer Fund. Meet The Composer fosters the creation, performance and recording of music by American composers and develops new audiences for their work. The Meet The Composer Fund provides grants for composers to be actively involved in the performances of their work, including performing, conducting, speaking with audiences, presenting workshops, giving interviews and coaching rehearsals. Composers at every stage of their careers are involved, writing in all stylesfolk, chamber, jazz and orchestral, from traditional to avant-garde.

SHIN IL KIM was awarded funding for The Invisible Masterpiece, a video and drawing installation based on the ideas in the book of the same name by Hans Belting. The idea is to investigate the status and meaning of the masterpiece, with the goal of getting closer to the idea of nothingness, but also showing something with nothingness. Working from videotaped clips of people looking at art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kim will transfer the images to pressed line drawing animation on paper, eliminating the masterpieces. The drawings will be looped together and projected onto large walls.