Grantee Database

Don't Follow the Wind

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2024
• Visual Art
• United States to Japan

To support American artist and curator contributions, conducting on-site research and interacting with displaced residents, for the Don't Follow the Wind exhibition through planning and development.

• 2020
• Visual Art
• United States to Japan

A 1-month grant supplement to adapt a disrupted project to enable U.S. and Japanese artists and curators to carry out research in Japan and through online meetings in connection with the English publication Don’t Follow the Wind, examining community and artistic responses to the ongoing crisis in the Fukushima Exclusion Zone

• 2019
• Curation
• United States to Japan

To enable three Americans to undertake research in Japan, in order to lay the groundwork for the first English publication on the the "Don't Follow the Wind" project

Alexander Dubovoy

• 2024
• Music
• United States to Japan

To collaborate and produce music with musician Katherine Whatley and sake brewer Kazuyo Fukao based on traditional sake production practices and field recordings.

Kate Fowle

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2024
• Grant to Bangkok Art and Culture Centre

• 2004
• Museum Studies
• United States to China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan

a three-week fellowship to carry out research on curatorial practices in China, Taiwan, and Korea

Gus Holley

• 2024
• Ethnomusicology
• United States to China

To study, rehearse, and perform with prominent Tang music revivalists, Zhang Yi and Xu Ge.

Hsin-Yun Huang

• 2024
• Music
• United States to Taiwan

To travel to several indigenous villages in Taiwan, with the assistance of a local guide, and seek permission to record video performances of their music, folk singing & dancing, and offer her own playing in return.

Celine Katzman

• 2024
• Curation
• United States to Singapore

To research social and political conditions impacting contemporary artists working in new media, performance, and alternative education in Singapore.

Laurel Kendall

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2024
• Grant to American Museum of Natural History

• 2010
• Museum Studies
• United States to United States

to enable you to carry out research on Balinese masks.

Benjamin Kimitch

• 2024
• Dance
• United States to Japan

To embody classical dance forms and shadow performing artists Yasuko Yokoshi and Fumiya Otonashi on their daily studio practice and artistic craft, grounded in Nihon Buyo recital dance and Gagaku court performance traditions.

Akil Kumarasamy

• 2024
• Literature
• United States to Japan

To research how ancient spiritual practices co-exist in modern cities like Tokyo by understanding traditions of itakos (blind female seers) and energy reiki healers, and how they fit into remote and urban areas of Japan.

Kimi Maeda

• 2024
• Theater
• United States to Japan

To transform an abandoned house (akiya) in Japan's rural Shimane Prefecture into an immersive performance piece and oral history collection for the project, "Ichi Oku House" (一憶ハウス ).

Koto Maesaka

• 2024
• Arts Administration
• United States to Japan

To visit Hokkaido Province, Iwate Prefecture, and Tokushima Prefecture connecting with universities, local organizations, wadaiko (traditional Japanese drums) makers, and experiencing local dance festivals to connect with artists and organizers.

Asif Majid

• 2024
• Theater
• United States to India

To examine how Shi'a Muslims, Sunni Muslims, and Hindus rehearse commemorations like poetry, processions, drumming, and public mourning ahead of the first sacred month of the Islamic calendar, Muharram, and how these practices make, unmake, and remake Indian trans religious harmony.