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Premiere Grantees | Funded by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

Art Fund Grantees | Funded by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

2010 Premier Grantees
46 applicants, 17 awards, total awarded: $45,500
Above: Don Porcella, 2010 Premier Grantee

Serena Agnellini: P.S. 65 Mural
Agnellini will paint a 2,250 square foot mural at P.S. 65 incorporating the school’s dolphin mascot. The mural will correspond with P.S. 65’s mission and will encourage creativity among the students. Award amount: $2,800.

Miguel Angel: Neolithic Postcards
Angel will print his photographs on marble slabs, evoking our earliest artistic achievements as human beings. These Staten Island scenes on marble, defamiliarized postcards will represent the deep history, scenic beauty, and contemporary diversity of Staten Island. Award amount: $3,000.

Susan Guthrie: Staten Island Shakespeare Project, a Youth Shakespeare Company
Guthrie will create a two-week focus on Shakespeare as part of A Midsummer Arts Festival 2010. After initial creative activities, one Shakespeare title will be developed, rehearsed, and performed. Award amount: $2,000.

Robert Haller: Avant-Garde Filmmaker Photography
Haller will print and exhibit his images of three generations of historically important avant-garde filmmakers. These images will ultimately be placed in archives at the Staten Island Museum and Anthology Film Archives. Award amount: $3,000.

Andrea Hanson/Painting Soldiers: CD and Public Performance
Hanson, who performs as Painting Soldiers, will perform at Alice Austen House and create a CD produced by Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth. The songs pertain to the necessity of work for survival, the concept of reaping and sowing for human prosperity, and the sacrifices that people make in order to accomplish such things. Award amount: $2,500.

Jim Indelicato & Scott Caddell: 3rd Annual Westerleigh Folk Festival
Indelicato & Caddell will produce a free all-day outdoor music and art festival in Westerleigh Park in September 2010. The festival will feature a number of Staten Island musical artists and groups who will perform a broad spectrum of folk music. Award amount: $3,000.

Tamara Jenkins: The Empress
Jenkins will present a public reading of her new musical “The Empress” at Veterans Memorial Hall. The reading will consist of fifteen Broadway actors as well as the Staten Island theatrical community. Award amount: $2,500.

Claire Jimenez: A Map of Yourh Stories and Art
Jimenez will create a youth council of teenagers who will engage in a series of artistic types of community mapping. The youth mapping project will combine writing and photography to record the teenage participants’ impressions of their community and the connection of community and space to their identity of young people and artists. Award amount: $3,000.

Sean Kuhl/The Great Unwashed: CD and Public Performance
The Great Unwashed will produce a full length album and collaborate with local audio engineers, sound designers, visual artists, musicians and filmmakers. Award amount: $3,000.

Rob Ludacer: Manhattan in Half
Ludacer will create a five minute animated short about 1820s Manhattan and the clash between upper and lower classes, entrepreneurs, unemployed, and new Americans and recent immigrants. The film will feature 2D fully animated characters drawn frame-by-frame superimposed onto traditionally painted backgrounds. Award amount: $3,000.

Mandy Morrison: Performative Video with NYC Arts Cypher
Morrison will create a performative video with a spoken-word component generated in conjunction with NYC Arts Cypher. The video will explore impressions, fantasies and issues about life in the United States through dance, costumes, and narrative structure. Award amount: $2,500.

Don Porcella: The Cave Painters
Porcella will create a large-scale installation for the Newhouse Center of Contemporary Art that includes a cave with figures that narrates his understanding of ancient artists as they relate to art history and early Staten Island People. This mixed media installation will be comprised of his signature pipe cleaner sculptures as well as new sculptural materials. Award amount: $3,000.

Joe Smith: Staten Island's History Now: William T. Davis
Smith will present an original living history portrayal of William T. Davis, a leader in building 19th century conservation awareness. Smith will bring Mr. Davis forward in time in an entertaining and engaging way and inspire audiences to be curious about Staten Island’s unique beauty and history. Award amount: $2,500.

Patrizia Vignola: Babies and Patterns
Vignola will create a series of oil paintings of babies and children of diverse ethnicities floating within intricate patterns. Vignola will explore themes of innocence and convey a message of humanity. Award amount: $2,500.

Grace Volpe: The Artist and the Art Sleuth
Volpe will present a lecture on the New York City Police Department’s first art detective, Bob Volpe. She will present recently discovered drawings of the Staten Island harbor created by Bob Volpe, as well as original works by herself. Award amount: $1,200.

Sriyantha Walpola: A Taste of Home
Sriyantha Walpola will create a cookbook that combines his photodocumentary work with recipes from his homeland of Sri Lanka. Award amount: $3,000.

Mark Zappasodi & Scott Van Campen: Brewing as Art
Zappasodi and Van Campen will create a brewing structure that marries form and function, art and industry, past and present. This steam punk welded sculpture will be meticulously crafted utilizing old and new materials, and will be presented at SHOW Gallery, Historic Richmondtown, and Killmeyers during lectures on the history of Staten Island’s brewing history. Award amount: $3,000.

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2010 Art Fund Grantees
15 applicants, 4 awards, total awarded: $15,000
Above: Steven Lapcevic, 2010 Art Fund Grantee

Irma Bohorquez-Geisler: Dia de los Muertos Celebration
Bohorquez-Geisler will present a traditional Mexican Day of the Dead celebration to honor our deceased loved ones. This family festival will include dancing skeletons and decorated sugar skulls. Ofrendas will reflect a mixture of Catholicism and ancient Mexican/Aztec cultural practices and traditional Mexican crafts will be offered. Award amount $2,000.

Brendan Coyle and Steven Lapcevic: Clowntrodden
Coyle and Lapcevic will create a collaborative film, animation, and performance art piece that addresses the proclivities of modern man to remain in a state of arrested development, and how the effects of society, tradition and heritage factor in. This frame-by-frame animation will show figurines such as deer, clowns, and oriental statues as a chattering peanut gallery in the mind of a man steeped in developmental issues. Award amount: $4,000.

NYC Arts Cypher: BREAKOUT
The BREAKOUT program offers youth a multi-faceted educational experience in film development. By offering valuable real-life experiences expressed through the arts, students are given the opportunity to explore and enhance their individual artistic ability while contributing toward and important peer-educational film project. Award amount: $4,000.

Nick Fevelo/Orchard: CD and Public Performance
This post-rock quartet will finish an EP of original music and offer a free outdoor performance at Pouch Camp in Spring 2010. Many of Orchard’s songs abandon functional harmonies often found in popular music; instead the compositions are based on major or minor third chord relations and modal harmonies. Award amount: $5,000.

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2010 Staten Island Creative Communites Grantees
33 applicants, 12 awards, total awards: $36,576
Above: Janice Patrignani, 2010 SI Creative Communities Grantee

Allen Cohen: The Bluegrass Hit Parade, 1946-2010
Cohen will develop a program of bluegrass music using the signature songs of the most famous practitioners of this musical genre from 1946 to the present. Cohen will present a series of three performances across Staten Island with Bob Wright, Vincent Cross, and Mark Farrell. Sponsored by Tottenville Historical Society. Award amount: $3,100.

Debby Davis: Staten Island Toxic Map: Where Not to Walk
Davis will create a map of Staten Island which shows areas of varying degrees of toxicity, from Superfund sites down to brownfields and areas in need of further testing. The map will be styled after a traditional hiking trail map showing people where NOT to walk, and will be printed in the COAHSI newsletter. Sponsored by Mud Lane Society for the Renaissance of Stapleton. Award amount: $2,750.

Friends of Westerleigh Park: Young Artists in the Park
Young Artists in the Park draws children from across the Island and provides them with canvases, paint and brushes to help them express themselves. Award amount: $1,276.

Gena Mimozo: Snug Underground Theatre Festival
Snug Underground is a theatre festival that will feature all original works, including a play written by Michael Sulsona, an original musical written by Matt Ryan & Frank Williams, and The Femme Show, an interactive review about queer femme identity. Sponsored by Lifeblood Theatre Company. Award amount: $3,000.

NYC Arts Cypher: M.U.R.A.L.
M.U.R.A.L. works with culturally-diverse youth between the ages of 13-19 on Staten Island who have engaged in vandalism and have demonstrated an interest in graffiti. The program will instill positive values and expose youth to art career opportunities. Award amount: $4,000.

Janice Patrignani: Tools Inside Help Yourself
Patrignani will create an interactive sculpture and provide ceramic workshops. She will incorporate glass mosaic and shibori dyed fabrics with ceramic elements from community workshops and old tools and a tool chest to create a participatory installation. Sponsored by Forest Avenue Business Improvement District. Award amount: $2,750.

Raja Rajeswari: Gateway to India: a Potpourri of Indian Dances
Rajeswari will present a unique dance composition set in various styles of Indian Classical and folk dances. She will showcase the divergent but equally valuable variety of dance disciplines that exist in one country. Sponsored by Staten Island Zoological Society. Award amount: $2,350.

Richmond Choral Society: Spring Concert 2010
Richmond Choral Society will join the Staten Island Philharmonic in their presentation of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in collaboration with Arcadian Chorale. They will also perform Franz Liszt’s Cantata on the Inauguration of the Beethoven Monument in Bonn, 1845. Award amount: $4,000.

Staten Island Creative Community: Art by the Ferry 2010
Art by the Ferry is a two weekend celebration of arts, culture and education in St. George. The festival will solidify the arts community across generational lines, showcase the vibrant and culturally-diverse life on Staten Island, provide venues for the arts, enliven the streets of St. George and create an economic stimulus for local businesses. Sponsored by Community Health Action. Award amount: $3,500.

Staten Island OutLOUD: Community Based Spoken Word Performances, Readings & Dialogues
Staten Island OutLOUD makes great works accessible to a broad audience and builds cross-cultural understanding. 2010 events include readings of short stories by Willa Cather, readings from the Qu’ran, and the poetry of Langston Hughes. Sponsored by Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries. Award amount: $5,000.

Universal Temple of the Arts: From Trash to Treasure
This artistic environmental preservation workshop will be an interactive series that provides a thought-provoking atmosphere for creative exploration. Participants will transform objects otherwise considered to be garbage into collage artwork that is decorative, interesting, creative, and able to make social statements. Award amount: $2,500.

WaFoo: Traditional Music of Japan
WaFoo will provide two music productions which feature distinctive voices of Japanese traditional instruments called Shinobue (bamboo flute) and Shamisen/Sanshin (three string banjos). Each of the productions includes a full-scale concert and new compositions and arrangements of Japanese traditional or hit songs. Sponsored by St. Peter’s Church. Award amount: $2,350.

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2010 Original Work Grantees
29 applicants, 4 awards, $2,500 each
Above: Paul Moakley, 2010 Original Work Grantees

Ryan McGivern: Glass Art
McGivern will create a series of hand blown bell jars, each of which will hold collected fragments of china, glass, metal, and clay artifacts collected from Bottle Beach in St. George. Each blown glass bell jar will be arranged thematically and will be inscribed with the latitude and longitude along with illustrations and stories etched to create a story. The narrative of each assemblage will be completed and reinterpreted by each viewer.

Paul Moakley: Video
Moakley will film high school students trying out for the spring musical. He will follow the students from audition to opening night. He will present the finished video opposite Balls Are Flying Everywhere, a video following football players from tryouts through their first game. He will sync the two films to have the same running time and project them on opposite walls at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, allowing the viewer to explore and dispel traditional stereotypes about jocks and drama students.

Rod Morata: Photography
Morata will create a series of photographs that revisits, reflects, and explores his religious studies as a child. The series will be a sequence of photographs that recreates the rituals of Catholicism through self-portraits. The rituals will be actual but the locations will be changed. The events will be taken out of the church and replaced with everyday locations, putting these activities in a new and reviewable context.

Don Porcella: Sculpture
Porcella embraces non-traditional modes of art-making and art tools. By weaving pipe cleaners to create sculptural installations the craft material is elevated to a fine art context. Porcella will create a large-scale installation entitled “Garden of Eden”, merging his signature pipe cleaner sculptures with animation, paintings, and mixed media to create a grand sculptural narrative. The installation will highlight deeper tensions regarding the human condition in terms of what it means to be a Staten Islander living in a dystopian/utopian age.

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Arts-in-Ed Grants & Award Recipients| 2010

The Staten Island Foundation: GAINS
(Growing Arts in Neighborhood Schools) Program & Awards
10 applications, 6 awards, $13,750 awarded

Wish List Grants

Blessed Sacrament School
(Award Amount: $2,250)
Shakespeare in the Classroom
Shakespeare in the Classroom
“Shakespeare in the Classroom,” with Teaching Artist Susan Guthrie, is a unique approach incorporating storytelling, improvisation, critical evaluation, and creative writing for 8th & 3rd grade.

Children's Harbor Montessori
(Award amount: $1,750)
"Young Jack"
"Young Jack” will be an historical re-enactment, followed by history of Sailor’s Snug Harbor; ending with learning to sew a tapestry modeled after a classic mariner’s woolie (a bag to hold belongings). This project involves Kindergarten & Pre-K, and will be in conjunction with the Noble Maritime Collection.

Concord High School
(Award amount: $2,250)
Poetic Form in Mind
Teaching Artist Susan Guthrie will work with students at Concord High School and I.S. 61 (8th grade) to study classical poetic form through the dark imagery of Edgar Allan Poe and William Shakespeare.

The Hungerford School
(Award amount: $2,500)
Teen Tales
InCollaboration brings teaching artist Victoria Larimore to the classroom to help students write books with narrative and pictures, creating a fairy tale in which the student is the star in their own life. Hungerford is a 100% special needs school designated a “Blue Ribbon School” by the Federal Secretary of Education.

P.S. 1
(Award amount: $2,500)
Janice Patrignani will work with Kindergarten students to help them depict themselves and their community on silk banners to be displayed for the entire school; P.S. 1 has no visual arts program.

P.S. 31
(Award amount: $2,500)
Chorus Club
Musician Emily Ellison will start a “Chorus Club” pilot program for 4th and 5th graders, with the hope of pursuing additional funds to make it year-round.

2010 Excellence in the Arts Awardees
8 Awards, $1,000 each

Tattfoo Tan
"Tattfoo Tan's Mobile Garden"
Tattfoo Tan asked people to build a mobile garden and bring them to his garden for a Mobile Garden March. Mobile Garden is a discarded shopping cart retrofit into a mobile edible garden that can be locked to a signpost or be paraded in public.

Guy Klucevsek
Guy Klucevsek will perform a retrospective program of original solo accordian music, including "Ratatatatouille" written in honor of the great basque composer and accordionist Kepa Junkera. There will be compositions inspired by Balkan music, the French musette, and more. He will include samples from "The Well-Tampered Accordion," a collection of etudes, dances and "songs without words" which he wrote in conjunction with a 2002 NYSCA Original Work Grant through COAHSI.

DB Lampman
"I am an Exponent of Myself"
"I am an Exponent of Myself" is a multi-media performance art piece in which DB will suspend herself inside a clear plexiglass box via a network of rubber cables. Words such as "love," "duty," "guilt," "ecstasy," "joy," "agony," and "fear," will be projected onto the glass. Audio recordings of her voice will echo through the space. By altering how she attaches the cables to the structure, Lampman will create a different sculptural form, a new reality, and a new identity for herself.

Orchard
Orchard uses the vehicle of music to communicate an often existential message in a non-narrative form through original compositions. Their goal is to combine conceptual artistic practice in popular song format in the Post-Rock genre. Orchard integrates rock, ambient, and computer music, with influences as varied as Brian Eno, Death Cab for Cutie, Aphex Twin, David Byrne, and Sigur Ros. Orchard consists of Daniel Rufolo on keyboard, Emil Rufolo on drums, Adrian Moring on bass, and Nicholas Fevelo on lead vocals and guitar.

Jay Miller
"Mid-Evenings with Jay Miller"
Jay Miller is the host of the popular underground talk show, "Mid Evenings with Jay Miller." The show highlights comedians including writers for The Colbert Report, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and Saturday Night Live. Miller's shows include pre-recorded videos, sketches, interviews with local and national celebrities and rousing musical numbers.

Steven Lapcevic
"LUMEN at Atlantic Salt, featuring 'Anomalyville' "
Excellence in the Arts Grantee Steven Lapcevic will feature several of his animations under the title "Anomalyville." Lapcevic's virtual world will come to life and expose viewers to themes in his work such as volition, identity, alienation, social violence, fear, and codependent/dysfuntional relationships.

Nylon Wound
Nylon Wound will present a concert of original instrumental music composed by the classical guitar duo Joseph Parisi and Gregory Askins. The concert will reflect various influences of the evolving American experience from blues, jazz, American fiddle tunes, Mexican folklore to contemporary classical. These contemporary classical compositions are inspired by various Staten Island locations including the ferry terminal, Clove Lakes Park, and Allison Pond in Randall Manor.

Thomas Pascale Latin Jazz Permutations
Thomas Pascale will present a performance of contemporary and authentic Latin/Salsa music including arrangements of Afro-Latin Jazz standards with an emphasis on Latin influences. Songs will be performed by a five-piece band in the Latin-Jazz style. Performers include Arturo Vera on guitar and vocals; Thomas Pascale on alto sax, vocals and percussion; Jerrold Kavanagh on drums, congas and percussion; Roberto Ortiz on tenor sax; and Chacho Gonzales on bass guitar.

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2010 JPMorgan Chase Capacity Building Grants
14 Awardees, Awards Ranging from $1,000-$3,000

Alice Austen House
Alice Austen house will receive $2786 to digitize and identify the photographs in the museum’s collection.

El Centro de Hospitalidad
El Centro will receive $2786 for a part-time dance teacher for “Latino Folklorido de
Staten Island."

Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
Garibaldi-Meucci Museum will receive $2000 for a new computer and network.

Harbor Lights Theatre Company
Harbor Lights will receive $2786 for the establishment of a marketing campaign to increase the theater’s visibility.

Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
Jacques Marchais Museum will receive $3000 for a new scanner to help the museum digitize ther collections.

Music at Saint Alban's
Music at St. Alban's will receive $2786 for the production, distribution and design costs associated with marketing their concert series.

Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble
Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble will receive $3000 to hire a professional arts development consulting firm.

NYC Arts Cypher
NYC Arts Cypher will receive $2786 for a grantwriter and software to develop better fundraising.

Richmond Choral Society
Richmond Choral Society will receive $2786 for Executive Director salary.

Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre
Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre will receive $2786 for the production and distribution of a season marketing piece.

Staten Island Philharmonic Orchestra
Staten Island Philharmonic Orchestra will receive $2786 for a part-time development associate.

Sundog Theatre
Sundog Theatre will receive $2175 for an HD video camera.

Universal Temple of the Arts
Universal Temple of the Arts will receive $2000 for operational support to re-develop their arts curricula to align with NYS learning standards.

Viva Voce
Viva Voce will receive $2542 for equipment, supplies, and memberships in organizations that will expand their repertoire, and increase outreach in the Staten Island community.

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2010 JPMorgan Chase Arts in Our Communities Grant
8 Grantees, Awards Ranging from $1,000-$3,000

Balet Guadalupano
Balet Guadalupano's project is “Recognizing, restoring and sharing Mexican Independence Day on Staten Island.” This project will shine a light on Mexican Independence Day, not to be confused with Cinco de Mayo. Valet Guadalupano will restore this very important holiday by having a celebration that will include traditional music and dance. It will also include new traditional dances from Chiuayay, Tabasco, and Hidalgo, and will be performed in traditional costumes from those countries. Award Amount: $2875

David Zukas
Zukas's project is “Doors of No Return.” Using the human figure, David will create transformative ideas on wooden doors. The wood of the doors are symbolic of the wooden ships that transported his European ancestors, and the present day rickety boats that traverse treacherous waters delivering present day immigrants. He hopes this exhibit will empower new immigrants and act as a social catalyst. Award Amount: $2875

Dona Kiriella
Kiriella will create “Moving with the Past,” a printmaking project focusing on Sri Lankan women living on Staten Island. The work will explore modern Sri Lankan women, and how traditions and culture play a role in their lives. It will also explore Sri Lanka’s influence on current fashion and design. Award Amount: $2875

Douglas Barr
Barr will present several “Seisiún on Staten Island” with Linda Hickman. Douglas and Linda will educate people through a lecture and explanation of different types of traditional Irish instruments. They will then conduct five monthly sessions in places across Staten Island, that will introduce traditional Irish music to people of all ages. Award Amount: $2875

El Centro de Hospitalidad
El Centro de Hospitalidad received a grant for “Latino Folklorico Dance Group.” With this money El Centro will hire seamstresses to create the elaborate costumes used for traditional Latino dances. The students of El Centro’s Dance Group teach dances from their country of origin, representing Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, and Honduras. They will perform these dances at a number of different festivals throughout the year. Award Amount: $2875

Ghanaian Civic Association
Ghanaian Civic Association will present “Kente Cloth Weaving from Bonwire, Ghana to Staten Island.” The project will include a live demonstration of Kente Cloth weaving on a traditional loom (built by a Staten Islander), an exhibit of various Kente cloth designs, an interpretive talk with Samuel Owusu Sekyere and the family of tradition bearers from Bonwire, and a conversation
with the carpenter of the loom, David Riccardi. Award Amount: $2875

Sriyantha Walpola
Walpola will create a series of photographic essays, "A Taste of Home," that will follow Sri Lankan women as they shop for ingredients in American supermarkets and ethnic stores, then prepare dishes at home and serve the meals to their family. Studio photos of the food will be included, along with recipes. Award Amount: $2875

Wafoo
Wafoo will present “Wafoo meets Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble,” in which they will present two full-scale music concerts performing original Wafoo compositions, as well as different arrangements of traditional Japanese music, played on Japanese instruments. Three musicians from Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble will be invited to perform with Wafoo, creating a blend of beautiful classical music. Award Amount: $2875

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