Awardees

Jenny Abel

For sound mixing on her first feature length documentary film, Abel Raises Cain, to be screened at the Independent Film Festival of Boston in April 2005.

First Quarter

Keith Adkins

To engage a director and scenic designer for the production of his play, Farewell, Miss Cotton, at the Black Dahlia Theatre in the fall of 2005.

Third Quarter

To purchase and ship traditional costumes from Peru for a dance performance at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and for live broadcast on KCET on December 24, 2005, as part of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission’s Holiday Celebration.

Fourth Quarter

Ramaa Bharadvaj

For lighting design and props for the dance work, Raja-Mandalam, to be performed at the Japan America Theatre in Los Angeles in March 2005.

First Quarter

Jordan Biren

For digital post-production and audio sweetening of two new videos, The Desoto Conquest and My Mother’s House, to be screened in March 2005 at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California.

Fourth Quarter

Tiffany Chung

For the printing and framing of photographs and the fabrication of beanbag sculptures to be included in an installation at the Third Fukuoka Asian Art Trienniale in Japan in the fall of 2005.

Second Quarter

Joyce Dallal

For travel to Alexandria, Egypt to oversee the installation of a video work for the exhibition, Above, Below and in the Sahara Desert, at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in April 2005.

First Quarter

Carol Es

For die-cutting and letterpress services, and for the custom framing of works to be included in a solo exhibition at the George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles in the fall of 2005.

Second Quarter

Reanne Estrada

To create plexiglass bases for sculptures to be exhibited in a solo show at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art in February and March of 2006.

Fourth Quarter

Shelley Gazin

For the printing and mounting of large-scale works to accompany a presentation of her work at the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles, in association with the Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History, in the fall of 2005.

Third Quarter

Kraig Grady

To add three additional performers and to create a special screen for the performance of a shadow puppet play at New Langton Arts in San Francisco in May 2005.

First Quarter

Leslie Gray

To engage a composer and two musicians for live musical accompaniment to the puppet theater performance, The Pink Dress, at the Japanese American National Museum in June 2005.

First Quarter

Lucy H.G.

To ship two additional works to the exhibition A Science of the Imaginary at the Colombian Association for the Advancement of Science, and for travel to Bogotá to oversee the installation of video.

Third Quarter

Petra Haden

To included four additional singers to a choir, to engage a conductor and additional rehearsal for the a cappella musical performance of Petra Haden sings ‘The Who Sell Out,’ at the Schindler House in Los Angeles in June 2005.

First Quarter

Michael Heralda

To support the cost of hand-crafting and shipping of masks and ceremonial objects for a storytelling performance at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in New York in the fall of 2005.

Third Quarter

Lazare Houetin

For costumes, and for additional dancers and musicians to perform with the West African Dje-Gbe Ensemble at the Levitt Pavilion in Pasadena, California in summer of 2005.

Second Quarter

Rebekah Jordan

To add cello and percussion to a performance of the artist’s songs at the NEMO Music Festival in Boston in the fall of 2005.

Third Quarter

Angela Kang

To support scenic elements and the rental of lighting equipment for the premiere of her play, The Bridegroom in the Night, as part of American Monsters 2 at the Lodestone Theatre in Los Angeles in the fall of 2005.

Third Quarter

Dan Katzir

For sound editing of a feature length documentary, Yiddish Theater: A Love Story, to be screened at the University of Southern California in February 2006.

Third Quarter

Christina Kokubo

For support of a technical director and the shipping of set pieces for a theatrical production to take place in Zagreb, Croatia in the fall of 2005 as part of the International Festival of the Blind and Visually Impaired.

Second Quarter

Dan Kwong

To collaborate with a Chinese opera artist, and to engage technical consultants for choreography, direction and lighting design for a new performance, Sleeping with Strangers, to be performed at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica,…

Fourth Quarter

Anne LeBaron

To add supertitles and live performance of shakuhachi and dijeridoo to the performance of her opera, Wet, at REDCAT Theater in Los Angeles in the winter of 2005.

Third Quarter

Sam Lee

For custom framing of large scale photographs for the solo exhibition of A Portrait of My Mother at the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles from spring through fall of 2005.

First Quarter

Mara Lonner

For the cost of machine cut stencils to be part of a solo exhibition at the Cue Art Foundation in New York City in March 2006.

Fourth Quarter

Alma Lopez

To ship additional prints and to extend her stay in Mexico City related to an exhibition of her digital prints at Prensa Editorial Les Voz in May/June 2005.

First Quarter

Lynn Manning

To include two collaborators in the performance of Shoot and Before the Drive to Oakwood Station as part of the International Festival of the Blind and Visually Impaired in Zagreb, Croatia in the fall of 2005.

Second Quarter

Francisco Martinez

To support lighting design, costumes and props for two dance pieces to be performed as part of the Latino New Works Festival at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, California in the fall of 2005.

Third Quarter

Rodney Mason

To collaborate with a filmmaker and a videographer on a new dance work, Madam in Eden, I’m Adam (part one: the final hour), a fusion of hip hop and Butoh, to be presented at Links Hall in Chicago in March 2006.

Fourth Quarter

Diane Meyer

To print six images at large scale to include in a solo exhibition at the A.I. R. Gallery in New York City in January 2006.

Fourth Quarter

Rebecca Morris

For travel to Chicago to oversee installation, catalogue preparation and to attend a related concert by her father, composer Robert Morris, in connection with her survey exhibition a the Renaissance Society in May/June 2005.

First Quarter

Licia Perea

To add a video component to a new dance work, Coyolxauhqui ReMembers, to premiere at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico in January 2006.

Fourth Quarter

Renee Petropoulos

To add a sound component to her solo exhibition, Prototype of the History of Painting, Eingrouping; Social Historical Latin America, at the Museo de Arte de El Salvador in spring/summer 2005.

First Quarter

Lionel Popkin

To support the creation of costumes and a sound score for Magic Carpet Solos, a dance work to be performed as part of the New Original Works (NOW) Festival at REDCAT in Los Angeles in the summer of 2005.

Second Quarter

David Rousseve

To transfer video to 16 mm film for the world premiere of Bittersweet as part of the Los Angeles’ Dance Camera West Festival in summer of 2005.

Second Quarter

Adam Rudolph

To transform an evening of solo work into a series of duets, by supporting musical collaborators’ fees for A Don Cherry Celebration at The Stone in New York in the fall of 2005.

Third Quarter

Susan Simpson

For the design and construction of a modular stage for the performance of Episode II of the Sunset Chronicles, a multimedia puppetry work, at II Corral in Hollywood in summer of 2005.

Second Quarter

Leslie Sloan

To incorporate stock footage and add music cues to the film High Heels on Wheels, for screenings at Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival and at Cornerstone…

Second Quarter

Judy Soo Hoo

For lighting and set elements for the production of her play, Solve for X, by the Lodestone Asian-American Theatre Ensemble at the Grove Theater in Burbank, California in March/April 2005.

First Quarter

Emiko Susilo

To support travel for two musical collaborators, from Hawaii and New York, to perform with the APPEX (Asian Pacific Performance Exchange) Ensemble as part of the World Festival of Sacred Music at the Japanese American National Museum in Los…

Second Quarter

Janice Tieken

To print five images at large scale to include in a solo exhibition at the Cypress College Gallery in Cypress, California in January 2006.

Fourth Quarter

Linda Vallejo

For custom framing and enhanced lighting of an installation at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles from January to March 2006.

Fourth Quarter

Steven Wong

To make sets of two additional chinaware plates for installation/use at the Imperial Inn restaurant as part of the large-scale project Chinatown In/Flux, presented by the Asia Art Initiative, in Philadelphia in the fall and winter of 2005. …

Second Quarter

Norman Yonemoto

To engage a composer and to complete a sound mix for the video, Contextually Yours, to premiere at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica, California in February 2006.

Fourth Quarter