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The MINNESOTA DANCE ALLIANCE, Minneapolis, acting as fiscal agent for ARENA DANCES BY MATHEW JANCZEWSKI, received $8,000 toward the development of new dance works. This is the second Jerome grant to Janczewski, awarded in recognition of his potential as an emerging choreographer. The funds will assist in the presentation of new work in the winter of 1998.

Photographer STEPHANIE KAYS will travel to Chicago, Illinois, for four days to photograph one of her subjects for an ongoing project and to distribute slide packages and photographs to the Chicago galleries Bodybuilder and Sportsman, Standard, and Schneider. Kays has been making images of the same two women for six years as an ongoing documentary project. She will pursue exhibitions, expand her portfolio, and promote her work.

MIXED BLOOD THEATRE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $18,600 to subsidize the creation, development, and production of four works by three emerging playwrights. Mixed Blood is a professional, multi-racial company that promotes cultural pluralism and individual equality through artistic excellence, using theater to address the artificial barriers that keep people from succeeding in American society. The Theatres vision is to be the definitive destination where theater artists and audiences representing the global village can create and share work that spawns a ripple effect of social change and revolutionizes access to theater. Mixed Blood, a founding member of the National New Play Network, is known not only for the commissioning of new works but for the presentation of first, second, and sometimes third productions of original plays.

THE PLAYWRIGHTS’ CENTER, Minneapolis, Minnesota, as fiscal sponsor for the WORKHAUS PLAYWRIGHTS COLLECTIVE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received $15,000 in support of the production of new works by emerging playwrights.  The Playwrights’ Center champions playwrights and plays to build upon a living theater that demands new and innovative works.  The Workhaus Playwrights Collective is a group of Minneapolis-based playwrights who have curated and produced each other’s work as company-in-residence at The Playwrights’ Center since 2006.  Each three-play season is chosen by mutual consent of the nine-member collective of playwrights.  Workhaus supports the playwright’s ability to know which play is ready to produce and when.  Writers create and present plays as they envision them by taking all major aesthetic decisions into their own hands.  This entails both greater responsibility and greater artistic risk.  The goal of Workhaus is to create a culture of new work.

Taja Will, Minnesota, received $5,000 to participate in a custom-made residency with Bay Area artist Sara Shelton Mann in San Francisco.

ARTISTS SPACE, New York City, received a two-year grant of $25,000 in support of the participation of emerging artists in the exhibition and Artist File programs. Artists Space is a nonprofit center for contemporary art and a service organization for artists. It seeks to broaden the visibility of emerging and under-recognized artists, and to increase public awareness of their art. It does this primarily through a ten-month exhibition season which features work in architecture, drawing, film/video, painting, performance, photography, literature, sculpture and multimedia. The organization also provides direct assistance to emerging and unaffiliated artists through the Irving Sandler Artist File, a computerized slide and photo CD registry of close to 3,500 artists. Jerome Foundation support finds its way to emerging artists selected for the annual exhibition program and in their inclusion in the Artist File.

SUE KOSMALSKI is an installation artist and arts administrator. Kosmalski received a grant to travel to New York City, Washington DC and Los Angeles for a total of four weeks over the next eight months. She will research video, film, newsreel and record libraries on the East and West Coasts to inform the creation of two new works.