Grantee Database

Asian Composers League

Country / Region:
• Philippines

• 2015
• Music

to support the participation of musicians from Asia in the Asian Composers League Festival and Conference, to take place in the Philippines in November 2015

• 1996
• United States to Philippines

Support the participation of four music specialists from the US in the 18th ACL festival to be held in Manila in January 1997. (Specialist are: Michael Tenzer, Chou Wen-chung, Bruno Nettl and Burton and Priscilla McLean)

• 1978
• Music
• United States to India

to enable Robert Ashley, composer and director of the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, to participate in the Fifth Annual Conference/Festival of Asian Composers' League, held in Bangkok, March 1978.

Asian/Pacific/American Institute

• 2015
• Art History
• United States to Japan

to support the participation of Mark Johnson in the Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange in Tokyo, Japan in summer 2015.

Ayusawa Keigo

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2015
• Music
• Japan to United States

Shamisen Player, Kawasaki: for a six-month grant to conduct research on contemporary music, and meet artists, musicians, and scholars in the U.S.

Roberto Balarbar

Country / Region:
• Philippines

• 2015
• Museum Studies
• Philippines to United States

for a six-month grant to undertake an apprenticeship at the Conservation Department of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and to visit and meet professionals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

John Vincent Bellezza

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2015
• Archaeology

to support fieldwork in Tibet in fall 2015

• 2014
• Art History
• United States to China

to support research on indigenous artistic traditions of Tibet through fieldwork on rock art in Tibet

• 2007
• Archaeology
• United States to China

An eight-month fellowship to continue writing for the book, "Father Sky Eagle, Mother Earth Serpent: Tibetan Civilization before the Coming of Buddhism"

• 2006
• Art History
• United States to China

eight-month grant to continue field research and writing on the archaeology of pre-Buddhist Tibet during 2006

• 2005
• Archaeology
• United States to Japan

to support continuing research and writing during 2005 on pre-Buddhist culture in Upper Tibet in connection with the completion of his book, Antiquities of High Tibet

• 2004
• Archaeology
• United States to China

continue research on pre-Buddhist culture in upper Tibet in spring 2004

• 2004
• Archaeology
• United States to China

Support to continue research on pre-Buddhist culture in upper Tibet in spring 2004, with a focus on the collection of oral histories

• 2003
• United States to India

to complete a survey of pre-Buddhist archaeological sites in Tibet in fall 2003

• 2003
• United States to India

Two-month fellowship to complete the next phase of research on pre-Buddhist archaeological sites in Tibet

• 2002
• United States to China

to carry out research and documentation of pre-Buddhist sites on the Upper Plateau in Tibet

• 2002
• United States to China

continue to undertake a general survey and documentation of pre-Buddhist archaeological sites in upper Tibet D-22644 (Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation)

Le Chi Bui

Country / Region:
• Vietnam

• 2015
• Grant to Asian Composers League

Wally Cardona

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2015
• Grant to WCV, Inc.

• 2014
• Grant to WCV, Inc.

• 2012
• Dance

for a multi-week research trip to Asia that represents the first stage of development for a project based on encounters with an international assembly of multiple movement-based master artists.

Carnegie Hall

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2015
• Music
• Korea to United States

to support the participation of South Korean musician Mr. Beomjae Kim in his second year of an advanced training program in New York City.

• 2010
• Music
• United States to United States

to support the participation of Japanese musicians performing in Carnegie Hall's Japan Festival in New York City in December 2010.

Joseph Celli

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2015
• Music
• United States to Indonesia

for a ten-week research trip in Indonesia in fall 2015.

• 1993
• Music
• United States to Japan

Study the traditional Japanese double reed instrament hichiriki and to research new developments in video technology in Japan.

Anchalee Chaiworaporn

Country / Region:
• Thailand

• 2015
• Film/Video
• Thailand to United States

for a three-month fellowship to meet filmmakers and film specialists in New York and conduct research on Thai arthouse directors who were educated in the United States.

Chen Chia-Jen

Country / Region:
• Taiwan

• 2015
• Grant to Bamboo Curtain Studio

Cheng Yin-Chen

Country / Region:
• Taiwan

• 2015
• Theater
• Taiwan to Indonesia, Korea

for a six-month grant to carry out research in Indonesia and South Korea