Nea 2000 First Round Grants - National Endowment for the Arts; includes list of grants - Statistical Data Included

To support 2nd Wednesdays. This series of evening performances and installations will be presented in a cafe atmosphere; selected evenings will be broadcast live over the Internet for national audiences. (Multi-state)

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Provincetown, MA

$15,000

To support the Winter Residency Program. Approximately 20 emerging writers and visual artists will be provided with housing, studios and a modest monthly stipend from October 2001 through April 2002.

First Voice, Inc., San Francisco, CA

$15,000

To support phase two of SUN CYCLES. This work combines spoken word, jazz, solo performance and multimedia production with Japanese Gagaku, Noh theater and other Asian performing arts traditions. (Multi-state)

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX

$45,000

To support the development of Nueva Obras/New Works. This project will serve up to 60 emerging artists who will be able to receive funding, mentoring, publicity assistance and presentation of new work.

Hallwalls, Inc., Buffalo, NY

$30,000

To support the Hallwalls Artist-in-Residence Project. Six creative residency projects will be the result of artist collaborations in Buffalo between 2001 and 2002.

Harvestworks, Inc., New York, NY

$20,000

To support Harvestworks' Artists' Access Program. This program provides artists with low cost or free access to advanced multimedia facilities and instruction courses in New York City.

Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

$35,000

To support the U.S. Artists-in-Residence Program and public programs. These programs will provide three-month residences for up to 30 artists and 15-20 educational programs for artists and audiences between February 1 and December 31, 2001.

Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture (Hostos Community College Advisory Council, Inc.), Bronx, NY

$10,000

To support the creation and presentation of Barrios. This new work is centered around the idea and the reality of a series of well-known crossroads and neighborhoods in New York City's Latino communities.

Justice Matters Institute (on behalf of Asian Improv aRts), San Francisco, CA

$5000

To support Day of Remembrance. This annual cultural arts and education presentation is organized in remembrance of the World War II incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese American and Japanese Peruvian civilians.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (on behalf of Bustlelamp Productions), New York, NY

$30,000

To support Spectropia. This piece will be an evening-length interactive media performance by two players on multiple screens. (Multi-state)

Miami Valley Cooperative Gallery (Consortium), Dayton, OH

$5000

To support a consortium with Culture Works to present the Dayton Asian and Asian American Art and Media Festival. The Festival will feature an exhibit of work by Asian American artists and screenings of contemporary film and video works by Asian and Asian American media artists.

Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ

$10,000

To support a multimedia theatre production based on Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. A new text will be created to explore the African American female experience with race, class and gender.