Velina Houston
To engage a dramaturg for the production of the play Calligraphy by Playwrights Arena at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in fall 2010.
Cesar Castro
To bring a master laudero (instrument maker) from Veracruz, Mexico and for travel to Mexico to collect instruments and interviews for an exhibition at Homegirl Cafe and Imix Bookstore in Los Angeles as part of Fandango Sin Fronteras/Expo 2009 presented by El Centro Cultural de Mexico in Santa Ana, California.
Alberto Ibarra
To engage a papier mache artist for the production of masks and props for the play ÛÏCyber Barrio ZoneÛ at the Festival Internacional Cervantino Callejero del CLETA in Guanajuato, Mexico in fall 2009.
Michele O’Marah
For the fabrication of light boxes and to purchase a video projector for simultaneous exhibitions at Cottage Home and Sister in Los Angeles in January 2010.
Wilfried Souly
To engage a master drummer and for lighting design for a dance performance at the Wild Dance West Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico in summer 2009.
John Castro
To engage a production manager for the performance of ÛÏThe Cooking Show con Karini y CastroÛ at the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center in San Francisco in spring 2008.
Heather Woodbury
To engage a lighting designer and a director for the solo comedic play ÛÏThe Last Days of Desmond Û÷NaniÛª Reese ÛÒ A StripperÛªs History of the World,Û to be performed at The Culture Project in spring 2008.
Natasa Prosenc
To digitally master an analogue video for the video art exhibition ÛÏSounds and VisionsÛ to be held at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Israel in spring 2009.
Raiford Rogers
For costume design and construction for the premiere of the dance work ÛÏGrosse FugeÛ at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at California State University in Los Angeles in summer 2008.
Carrie Paterson
To attend ÛÏLess Remote,Û a convening of the International Astronautical Congress in Glascow, Scotland in fall 2008 in conjunction with the screening of her film ÛÏSeveral attempts to make the image of the Moon and Mars by landing on them.Û