Esther Baker-Tarpaga
To support the travel and participation of Amadou Kiendou, a master griot drummer and singer from Burkina Faso, in the premiere of the dance work ÛÏGnama Gnama Mana Mana Kono/Disorder Inside OrderÛ at the Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles in fall 2008.
Adriana Astorga-Gainey
To engage Mariachi Los Torros to create and record music for a performance by Pacifico Dance Company at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, California in fall 2008.
Terry Wolverton
To engage live musicians and a visual artist/collaborator for the workshop production of ÛÏEmbers,Ûª a novel in poems, at the Los Angeles Central Library as part of the Aloud Series in January 2009.
Danial Nord
For the purchase of high-tech audio system for the solo exhibition Welcome Home at HAUS Gallery in Pasadena, California in spring 2007.
Kyungmi Shin
To support a video component of the solo installation Rich in the project gallery at the 18th Street Arts Center in spring 2008.
Joan Perlman
To add a video installation, From Ice, to a solo exhibition of paintings at the Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art in Iceland in summer/fall 2007.
Jessica Rath
For additional speakers, sound engineering and the construction of a spiral wall for the installation Bird Knocking at the Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, California in the winter and spring of 2008.
Marianna Yarovskaya
For audio sweetening and digital post-production of the documentary film, Holy Warriors, to be screened at the European Film Festival in Paris and at Emory University in Atlanta in spring 2006.
Heather Carson
To purchase a special lighting system to enhance an exhibition at Arena 1 in Santa Monica in fall 2006.
Adam Rudolph
To ship additional instruments and to extend the rehearsal period for the premier of the new ensemble Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures Octet at Symphony Space, produced by the World Music Institute, in New York City in fall 2006.