Grantee Database

Bridge for the Arts and Education

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2024
• Theater
• Malaysia to Japan

To conduct a workshop series facilitated by five artists from Malaysia and Japan involving open rehearsals and artist's talks to explore the link between Asian performance and the theme of death and rebirth through philosophy, movement, and sound.

• 2021
• Theater
• Japan to Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand

A music workshop and open forum for artists from Asia coming to Japan to participate in a production of the Mahabharata that will be held as part of the official cultural events for the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

• 2020
• Theater
• Japan to Asia

A 6-month Organization/Project Grant to support a joint film project around Hiroshi Koike’s Mahabharata Series with participating artists from nine countries across Asia

• 2019
• Theater
• Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand to Indonesia

to support cross-cultural workshops in Jogjakarta for performing artists from Japan and Southeast Asia to create a collaborative interpretation of the Mahabharata

Candice Chang

• 2024
• Visual Art
• United States to Japan, Taiwan

To research Hakka earth buildings, sacred architecture, and Chinese ink rubbings in Taiwan and China to inform a new model of participatory public art installation.

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.

Yan Fang

• 2024
• Art History
• China to Japan

To study Japan's Fluxus Movement by conducting research on key figures in Japan and the influence on contemporary artists.

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

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.

Ausen Lee

• 2024
• Visual Art
• Taiwan to Indonesia, Japan

To visit different communities involved in independent art in Indonesia, history, reflective architecture, and culture in Hiroshima and Okinawa, and contemporary art in Thailand to understand the spirit of collaboration in different political situations and cultures.

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.

Cynthia Martin

• 2024
• United States to Japan, Philippines

To continue research on a documentary film exploring how centuries of colonization and patriarchy in the Philippines led to shattered Filipino identity and how scholars and the youth are piecing it back together.