Cultural Programs
2017 Cultural Grants
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
Emma Hoette - London, England
To support the residency of artist Emma Hoette. Her residency with The Arctic Circle was an art and science expedition to the High Arctic.
BOOK TOUR
Felix Klos - Oxford, England
To support the costs of a book tour by the Dutch historian, Felix Klos, featuring his book Churchill’s Last Stand, The Struggle to Unite Europe. The book was presented in New York City, Long Beach, CA.
CULTURAL HERITAGE
Provincie Fryslân - Leeuwarden, Netherlands
To support the grand opening in May 2018 of 11 Fountains, a cultural heritage project connecting the eleven cities of the renowned Elfstedentocht (Eleven Cities Skating Race). The project comprises 11 fountains, created by 11 international artists.
Photos courtesy of Provincie Fryslân
Stichting Adoptie Graven Amerikaanse Begraafplaats Margraten - The Netherlands
To support a delegation of members of the American WW2 Orphans Network (AWON) to attend the last AWON Gala Gathering in Washington, D.C. in September 2018..
CONFERENCES AND LECTURES
Docomomo US - New York, NY
To support travel costs for keynote Hubert-Jan Henket, a Dutch modernism expert, to attend the 5th annual National Symposium: Modernism and Climate, in March 2017, in Phoenix, AZ.
New Amsterdam History Center - Albany, NY
To support the seminar New Amsterdam in the Dutch Atlantic: A Dialogue about the Trade and Entrepreneurship on the World Stage of the 17th Century in Fall 2017.
EXHIBITIONS
Drents Museum - Assen, Netherlands
To support the exhibition The American Dream: American Realism 1945-2017 on view November 2017-May 2018. The exhibition was presented jointly and simultaneously by the Drents Museum in Assen, Netherlands and the Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany.
Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University - Houston, TX
To support a large-scale installation by the Dutch artist collective WE MAKE CARPETS on view June-September 2018 at the Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University. designs.
Photos Courtesy of Moody’s Center for the Arts
Museum of Fine Arts Boston - Boston, MA
To support the exhibition M.C. Escher: Infinite Dimensions on display February through May 2018. The exhibition was the first monographic display of M.C. Escher’s work at a Boston Museum and uniquely focused on Escher’s artistry and process.
TodaysArt - The Hague
To support American artist Jacob Tonski to participate in TodaysArt Festival, The Hague. in September 2017. TodaysArt presented the 13th edition of its festival for contemporary visual arts, performance arts and digital culture.
FILM
Stichting Metro54 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
To support Sit for a Spell: a Work in the Spirit of Science Faction, a collaboration between the urban arts platform Metro54 in Amsterdam and the arts collective Black Constellation whose membership is based in the U.S. and Canada, to be presented at the Rotterdam Film Festival in January 2018, and at the Other Futures Festival in Amsterdam in February 2018.
PERFORMANCES
Dog Star Orchestra - Valencia, CA
Duo Ikt. - Amsterdam, Netherlands
To support Dutch pianist Reinier van Houdt’s participation in the Dog Star Orchestra Festival in Los Angeles in June 2018.
To support commissioned pieces by Pepijn Streng (Dutch) and Andrew Koss (American) as well as an arrangement written by the solo timpanist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nick Woud, and other works written for the duo in recent years. The works were performed during a concert in New York at the Manhattan School of Music in December 2017.
Ernst Reijseger - Hilversum, Netherlands
To support the New York Early Music Celebration–Music from the Age of Vermeer in October 2017. The Early Music Foundation organizes a semi-annual NYC-wide festival of historically informed early music events. The purpose of the festival is to reveal the riches of historic repertoire of the Netherlands and Flanders to American audiences.
Early Music Foundation - New York, NY
To support a cello performance in Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Public Theatre in NYC in 2017. Ernst Reijseger is a Dutch cellist and composer who was invited by Oscar Isaac (actor in Star Wars: the force Awakens and Romeo and Juliet) and director Sam Gold to compose, and play live, original music for performances of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Gabri Christa - Brooklyn, NY
To support choreographer Gabri Christa to produce an original work for stage and screen. Magdalena is a multi-media performance memoir on the life of her mother Josephina Magdalena Aleida de Jong told through dance, visuals and storytelling.
LAHO Group - Los Angeles, CA
To support Kevin van den Elzen (drummer-NL), Max Krauw (bassist, composer and arranger–U.S.), Paul Cornish (pianist/organist, composer–U.S.) and Mike Lebrun (Tenor Sax and composer–U.S.) of the LAHO Group in a concert tour of the Netherlands in October 2017.
National Sawdust - Brooklyn, NY
To support four performances of Secrets by Amsterdam-based singer and performance artist Claron McFadden and the jazz trio Massot-Florizoone-Horbaczewski. Secrets was a co-production by Operadagen Rotterdam and Belgium’s JazzLab Series and performed during the 2018 Prototype Festival, hosted by National Sawdust in NYC in January 2018.
Nederlands Dans Theater - The Hague
To support travel expenses for NDT1 tours to Ann Arbor, MI, Chapel Hill, NC and Washington, D.C., in Spring 2018 and for NDT2 to participate in Jacob’s Pillow Festival in Becket, MA in June 2018.
Nederlands Kamerkoor - Utrecht, Netherlands
To support the presentation of 150 Psalms at Lincoln Center by the Nederlands Kamerkoor in November 2017. The Nederlands Kamerkoor, which celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2017, performs choral music at the highest level and develops innovative educational activities for children, amateurs and gifted musicians to keep the art alive.
Other Minds - San Francisco, CA
Other Minds, founded in 1992, is dedicated to the encouragement of avant-garde music through concerts, workshops and programs that bring together artists and audiences of all traditions, generations and cultural backgrounds.
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Amsterdam, Netherlands
To support Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra concerts in New York in January 2018 at Carnegie Hall. The orchestra performed a program of Wagner, Bruckner, Bruch and Mahler. Janine Jansen performed at one of the concerts.
Stichting Codarts, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten - Rotterdam, Netherlands
In 2007 The Ailey School visited Codarts in Rotterdam for one week of joint classes and two sold-out performances at the Holland Dance Festival. This grant supported a return visit of the initial exchange with The Ailey School, which opened their facilities for a week in May 2018, providing a program of blended classes and workshops and two public and joint performances of Codarts Rotterdam and the Ailey School at the Ailey Citigroup Theater.
Photos Courtesy of Alvin Ailey and Codarts
Walker Art Center - Minneapolis, MN
To support performance of The Dog Days are Over by Dutch choreographer Jan Martens and his company, in March 2018.
PUBLICATIONS
Academy Art Museum - Easton, MD
To support the publication, “Jan Baptiste Weenix and Jan Weenix: The Paintings” by Dr. Anke Wagenberg (Catalogue Raisonné). The publication is the result of art historical research on the works of the Dutch seventeenth century painters Jan Baptist Weenix (1621-1659) and his son and pupil Jan Weenix (1641-1719)..
Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center - Poughkeepsie, NY
To support the production of a book of essays on the long and distinguished career of Professor Susan Donahue Kuretsky at Vassar College. The non-commercial publication is to be distributed free-of-charge to scholars and museum colleagues throughout the U.S. and the Netherlands.
PRIZES
Conlon Foundation - Utrecht, Netherlands
To support calls for enrollment for the Uncaged: Conlon Robot Keyboard Prize 2017. In September, 2017, the Gaudeamus Muziekweek took place in Utrecht, and in December, 2017, the UnCaged Toy Piano Festival took place in New York.
Christina V. Oorebeek - Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
To support Christina V. Oorebeek to participate in the Uncaged: Conlon Robot Keyboard Prize 2017. The winning pieces of this competition were performed in the Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Utrecht in September 2017 and in the UnCaged Toy Piano Festival in New York City in December 2017.
