| Program |
Category |
Grant Year |
Grant Amount |
| Dance |
Professional Performances |
FY19 |
$ 5,000 |
| Project Title: |
Christopher Williams, Artists' Sals., NY Perf Season - Marginalia: Narcissus |
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| Project Description: |
Set to Nikolai Tcherepnin's ballet score “Narcisse et Echo” composed in 1911 for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, my new choreographic work “Narcissus” will reappropriate themes of the eponymous ancient Greek myth on which it is based to re-imagine the original ballet through a contemporary queer lens. |
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| Individual Artists |
Film, Media & New Technology |
FY19 |
$ 22,500 |
| Project Title: |
(Artist: Darine Hotait), Like Salt |
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| Project Description: |
Like Salt is a narrative feature film with a story that takes place between New York, Detroit, and Lebanon. It is an exploration of the Arab-American diaspora and African-American identity through themes like immigration, racial identities, and profound dislocation. |
|
| Individual Artists |
Film, Media & New Technology |
FY19 |
$ 25,000 |
| Project Title: |
(Artist: Nadja Marcin), Pocahontas Returns |
|
|
| Project Description: |
The feature film "Pocahontas Returns" explores lost values inside our contemporary world and the search for ancient wisdom via the mise-en-abyme of hypermodern New York and neo-baroque Santa Cruz in Bolivia via an interracial love story blended with Telenovela and performance art. |
|
| Individual Artists |
Film, Media & New Technology |
FY19 |
$ 25,000 |
| Project Title: |
(Artist: Jennifer Karady), Soldiers' Stories from Iraq and Afghan: Dissonance |
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| Project Description: |
'Soldiers' Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan: Dissonance', an immersive multi-channel sound and video installation, will reveal the disconnect between public visual display of patriotism on the Fourth of July and how soldiers and those who have encountered trauma often privately experience the day. |
|
| Individual Artists |
Film, Media & New Technology |
FY19 |
$ 17,000 |
| Project Title: |
(Artist: Ben Altman), The More That Is Taken Away |
|
|
| Project Description: |
The video presents a prolonged solo meditation on genocide, and what it means to inherit such histories, using a mass-grave-like excavation behind my home and various performances at the site. The piece divides into three Acts over seven years, with cycles of decay and repair weaving through them. |
|
| Individual Artists |
Film, Media & New Technology |
FY19 |
$ 22,500 |
| Project Title: |
(Artist: Aaron Matthews), The War and Peace of Tim O'Brien |
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|
| Project Description: |
The War and Peace of Tim O’Brien follows the nation’s most celebrated war writer reckoning with his own wars and the nation’s in his next and last novel. |
|
| Literature |
Book & Literary Mag Pubs |
FY19 |
$ 2,500 |
| Project Title: |
AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought |
|
|
| Project Description: |
AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought is a project of Lazuli Literary Group. We are committed to publishing emerging writers whose work is explicitly demanding of the reader linguistically, intellectually and emotionally. |
|
| Literature |
Book & Literary Mag Pubs |
FY19 |
$ 5,000 |
| Project Title: |
Circumference |
|
|
| Project Description: |
Circumference is a biannual journal of poetry in translation, seeking to bring readers exciting and sustained encounters with the best contemporary translations of new poems, as well as revisions of classic poems, art, and in-depth writing on poetics around the globe. |
|
| Special Arts Services |
Project Support |
FY19 |
$ 15,000 |
| Project Title: |
CaribCulture + Little Caribbean |
|
|
| Project Description: |
CaribCulture preserves and presents Caribbean culture, heritage, and identity by engaging residents in cultural presentations: film screenings, performances, and art exhibitions at caribBEING House. |
|
| Special Arts Services |
Project Support |
FY19 |
$ 8,000 |
| Project Title: |
The Luminal Theater |
|
|
| Project Description: |
Includes: expansion of outdoor Cinema Garden Party collaborative screenings of Black films at neighbor-run community gardens with (1) big Cinema Block Party; establishment of bi-monthly series examining mass incarceration in Black & under-served communities, with speakers/experts present at each |
|
| Special Arts Services |
Regrants |
FY19 |
$ 19,772 |
| Project Title: |
Technical Assistance Program ($2965 Admin + $16807 Program) |
|
|
| Project Description: |
This TA Program will provide arts administrators who work in geographically remote and small organizations that operate in underserved communities, particularly communities of color, with professional learning opportunities and technical assistance to enhance their organizational practices. |
|
| State & Local Partnership |
Partnerships |
FY19 |
$ 750,000 |
| Project Title: |
Artists' Fellowship Program |
|
|
| Project Description: |
NYFA requests funds for the Artists' Fellowship Program, which
awards unrestricted grants of $7,000 to artists living and
working in New York State. Grants are awarded in 15 different
disciplines with applications accepted in 5 categories each year. |
|
| State & Local Partnership |
Partnerships |
FY19 |
$ 340,415 |
| Project Title: |
NYFA Professional Development Partnership Program |
|
|
| Project Description: |
NYFA will provide professional resources and training to artists in remote regions of New York State through our Boot Camp program. We have identified Syracuse, Westchester, Mid-Hudson, and Staten Island as potential locations, and we will work closely with NYSCA to make our final selections. |
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Total: $ 1,257,687 |
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