Emergency Grants
Jerome Begin and Yara Travieso
Performance Art/Theater
Brooklyn, NY
2013
Jerome Begin, a composer, and Yara Travieso, a director/video artist/choreographer, received a grant in June to present their performance installation Kwaidan at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center Artist-in-Residence Festival in New York, June 15-16.
Mallory Catlett
Performance Art/Theater
New York, NY
2013
Mallory Catlett, a director, received a grant in December to present This Was the End at The Chocolate Factory Theater in Long Island City, February 21-March 8, 2014.
Rachel Cohen
Performance Art/Theater
Brooklyn, NY
2013
Rachel Cohen, a performance artist and director of the performance group Racoco/Rx, received a grant in November to screen the group's film, Construct, at The Prague Festival, Alternativa in the Czech Republic on November 26.
Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya
Performance Art/Theater
Brooklyn, NY
2013
Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya, performance artists known collectively as LEIMAY, received a grant in September to present Becoming-Corpus at the BAM Fisher in Brooklyn, which opened on September 12.
Liza Wade Green
Performance Art/Theater
Brooklyn, NY
2013
Liza Wade Green, a founder of Institute for Psychogeographic Adventure (IPA), a team of interdisciplinary artists, received a grant in August to present EXPERIMENT #23 at the Brooklyn Museum’s BEAT Festival on September 19 and 21.
Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey/ATOM-r
Performance Art/Theater
Chicago, IL
2013
Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey, performance artists and members of the performance art collective ATOM-r (Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality), received a grant in October to perform at the Anatomical Theatre and Museum of King's College, London, and at the Performing House, the University of St. John’s theater in York, UK, October 13-26.
Kevin Kaempf/Lucky Pierre
Performance Art/Theater
Chicago, IL
2013
Kevin Kaempf, a performance artist and member of the art collective Lucky Pierre, received a grant in October to present I Hate America! (I Love America): Who Owns Myth, Pop, Race, Money and Terror in the Land of the Free?, a twelve-and-a-half-hour event created by thirteen UK and twelve US artists.
Glendalys Medina
Performance Art/Theater
Bronx, NY
2013
Glendalys Medina, a performance artist, received a grant in December to perform Dear Me at Casita Maria in the South Bronx on December 14.
Chiori Myagawa
Performance Art/Theater
New York, NY
2013
Chiori Myagawa, a playwright, received a grant in August to present I Came to Look for You on Tuesday at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York, September 26-October 13.
Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
Performance Art/Theater
Queens, NY
2013
Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, a theater designer and puppet artist, received a grant in August to reconstruct set pieces that were damaged in her studio during Hurricane Sandy.