2005 Grants
American Association of Museums
This grant to the American Association of Museums has provided support for the 2005-2007 International Partnerships Among Museums (IPAM) program. The IPAM program, promotes the formation of long-term institutional linkages between museums in all disciplines in the U.S. and around the world. Approximately 17 exchanges of mid-level professional staff from participating institutions will take place during this two-year cycle. IPAM supports the travel and per diem of one staff member from each partner institution to participate for a residency of at least 31 days at a U.S. and overseas museum. Typical projects, which often last well beyond the residency period, have included the development of joint exhibitions, museum community outreach programs, public school curricula, staff training programs, cultural tourism promotion tools, and museum-related Internet projects. This exchange program was funded in FY-05.
Appalshop, Inc.
To help support a three-year media exchange involving young Indonesians and their trainers from various Indonesian media arts organizations. This exchange project is designed to create a successor generation of media professionals in Indonesia and support the country's indigenous film works. The U.S. and Indonesian participants will attend workshops and public screenings of their individual and collaborative works. A multilingual training manual will be developed during the course of the project.
For information about the organization, visit: http://www.appalshop.org
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Bond Street Theatre
To help support a three-year project that trains Afghan performing artists in theater-based conflict resolution techniques. The project builds on a previous program in which Bond Street Theater partnered with Exile Theater in Afghanistan. U.S. performing artists and a filmmaker will travel to Afghanistan for a series of residencies to produce Beyond the Mirror, an updated version of the original production. The participants will also present joint workshops in various cities in the U.S. and Afghanistan.
For information about the organization, go here.
Brigham Young University
To help support a three-year exchange between Brigham Young University (BYU), the University of Damascus, and the Syrian Department of Antiquities to revitalize the Azem Palace museum collection and record traditional Syrian crafts that are quickly vanishing. BYU and University of Damascus students, along with young Syrian museum professionals will spend a semester at BYU studying a specific curriculum and preparing for the project. The team will then travel to Damascus to redesign the Azem Palace museum exhibits, record traditional artisans in surrounding villages and create an art education program for the museum.
For information about the organization, visit: https://orca.byu.edu/Content/Reports/2005annual/finearts.pdf
The Carnegie Hall Society
This 2005 Cooperative Agreement with Carnegie Hall provides support for a three-year music education program focusing primarily on young audiences ages 12 to 25. Carnegie Hall will administer a program that will involve a two-way exchange of musicians and educators to implement workshops, distance learning programs, digital lecture-demonstrations and Internet dialogs in public schools. The program will also include U.S. fellowship programs for eight overseas musicians and/or arts administrators.
For information about the organization, visit: http://www.carnegiehall.org.
CEC Arts Link
To help support a one-year program of visual artist and musician exchanges and residencies in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. U.S. artists will conduct workshops, master classes and lectures for festival managers and artists in the overseas countries. The visual artists from the overseas countries will participate in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the musicians will attend the Bang On A Can summer institute.
For information about the organization, go here.
Flushing Council on the Arts
To help support a cultural exchange program consisting of performances, exhibitions and collaborative arts projects with performing and visual artists from the Wind Dance Theatre of Taiwan and the Taipei Artists Village. Project activities include members of the Wind Dance Company conducting a residency in Flushing during which they will present workshops for artists and performances with local citizens, and artists from the Taipei Artists Village and Flushing participating in residencies in each other's communities.
For information about the organization, visit: http://www.flushingtownhall.org/
Institute for Training and Development
To help support a two-way exchange project with the Khiva Silk Carpet Workshop and Cultural Heritage Association of Karakalpakstan Weaving and Embroidery Workshop in Uzbekistan that will focus on respect for cultural identity, creative products and outreach to Muslim youth. Through a series of shadowing experiences and master classes in both countries, American and Uzbek textile artisans will learn each other's techniques, foster the development of Uzbek folk culture and traditional handicrafts, and encourage tourism in Uzbekistan.
For information about the organization, go here.
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
This 2005 Cooperative Agreement with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts supports the Cultural Visitors and Fellows Mentoring Program by providing opportunities for young filmmakers and artists from countries with significant Muslim populations to take part in training, mentoring and residency experiences in the United States. The program is designed to strengthen the participants' cultural institutions by building sustainable linkages and relationships with American individuals and institutions. Project activities include a two-to-three week U.S. based training program for twenty-four young foreign artists and arts managers and a 21-day professional development, orientation and mentoring program in the U.S. for fifteen mid-level arts managers.
For information about the organization, visit: http://www.kennedy-center.org.
Ohio Arts Council
To help support a project with arts educators in Chile, entitled, "The Andes Exchange: Animating Democracy Through Arts and Culture." Project activities include Chilean arts administrators from organizations that focus on programs for young people attending workshops in Santiago and Columbus on marketing, organizational management and evaluation strategies. The workshops will be presented by staff members of the Ohio Arts Council and other leaders in the arts community of Columbus, and will be designed to help strengthen the capacity the Chilean arts organizations.
For information about the organization, visit: http://oac.ohio.gov/news/NewsArticle.asp?intArticleId=220.
The Silk Road Project, Inc.
To help support the creation of the Innovators in Tradition exchange program between musicians from the U.S., Azerbaijan, China and India. Project activities include cellist, Yo-Yo Ma, traveling to the three overseas countries to present workshops, master classes and lecture demonstrations. Mr. Ma will also participate in Internet dialogs and develop mentoring relationships with young people whom he meets overseas. In addition, the musicians from Azerbaijan, China, India and the U.S. will rehearse and perform together, create new cross-cultural musical works, lead master classes and participate in workshops.
For information about the organization, visit: http://www.silkroadproject.org/
Tribeca Film Institute
To help support a Moroccan Film Exchange Program between U.S. film directors and professors and young emerging Moroccan filmmakers. Project activities include Moroccans participating in an intensive training program in Marrakech and the U.S. presented by established U.S. film directors and professors. Following the training program, the U.S. film professionals will continue mentoring the young Moroccan directors via phone conferences, script reviews, budget discussions, and film clip viewing until the Moroccan films are completed. Several of the Moroccan films will be featured at the Tribeca Film Festival.
For information about the organization, visit: http://www.tribecafilminstitute.org/mtfe-2005-recap.html
UCLA/APPEX
To help support a two-way performing arts exchange program between performing artists at UCLA and young artists from Indonesia and Malaysia that will include music, dance, and puppetry. Project activities include the APPEX program (Asia Pacific Performance Exchange) inviting young emerging artists from Indonesia and Malaysia to study with American APPEX master artists for six weeks. The U.S. performing artists will also travel to Indonesia for six weeks to study with master artists from Indonesia and Malaysia.
For information about the organization, visit: http://www.wac.ucla.edu/cip/appex/workshop.htm.
UCLA/CAM
To help support a reciprocal residency project for Choreographer/Arts Management (CAM) Fellows from the U.S., Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia. Project activities include participants from Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia attending a quarter at UCLA as CAM Fellows. The second residency program will send one U.S. based CAM Fellow to each of these three countries for a quarter. The program will combine three topics: a) Dance education with disadvantaged youth; b) Arts Management in America; and c) Creative process and freedom of expression through choreography.
For information about the organization, visit: http://www.wac.ucla.edu/cip/cam/
University of Iowa
To help support the International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa. IWP will administer two writer exchanges during this project with writers from countries with significant Muslim populations: one will bring international writers to the 38th Annual IWP Residency; the other will convene American and international writers for a week-long colloquium in Paros, Greece. The program will examine current trends in literature in the United States and worldwide.
For information about the organization, visit: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/
2004 Grants
Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music
To help support a program of performances, master classes and workshops in countries with significant Muslim populations in Central Asia, East Asia and the Middle East. The Apple Hill project coordinators will also award scholarships to young Muslim musicians from the countries they visit, to attend the 24-day Apple Hill summer immersion program.
CEC ArtsLink, Inc.
CEC ArtsLink will conduct a multidiscipline arts program of reciprocal exchanges between Uzbekistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan and the Northeastern, Rocky Mountain and Western U.S. Twenty-seven arts managers, visual artists, musicians and composers, will participate in this program through a competitive process based on a successful model for exchange programs operated by CEC, called ArtsLink Residencies. Selected applicants will participate in reciprocal exploratory visits to major arts festivals, training sessions, workshops and seminars, master classes, public performances, residency placements and exhibitions.
For more information about this organization, visit: http://www.cecartslink.org.
International Visitors Council/World Affairs Council
The International Visitors Council/World Affairs Council of
North Carolina in conjunction with Doc Art, Inc., will
conduct an exchange program for Turkish and American
filmmakers. The participants will learn the latest filmmaking
techniques, experience new cultures, and collaborate
on three-minute documentary films. Six young Muslim
filmmakers from Turkey will attend the 2005 Full Frame
Festival in Durham, meet prominent and emerging American
filmmakers, and attend training. Six American filmmakers
will travel to Turkey for further collaboration. A film
compilation of all the shorts will be shown at the 2006
Festival.
For information about the organization, visit:
http://www.ivc-wac.org/default2.aspx.
UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance
The UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance
(CIP) will administer a reciprocal project for six Choreographer/Arts
Management (CAM) Fellows in two separate residencies
over a two-year period. During the first program, participants
from Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia will attend the
2006 winter quarter at UCLA as CAM Fellows. The second
residency program will send on U.S. based CAM Fellow
to each of these three countries during the 2007 winter
quarter. The CAM Fellows will be professional who administer
dance programs for young people in their respective
countries. The program will combine three topics: dance
education with disadvantaged youth; arts management
in America; creative process and freedom of expression
through choreography.
For information about the organization, visit: http://www.wac.ucla.edu/cip.
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