Grantee Database

Bridge for the Arts and Education

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 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

Han Sung Nam

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2021
• Grant to Waley Art

Eri Homma

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2021
• Visual Art
• Japan to United States

To research the cultures of the Japanese and Okinawan diaspora in Hawai’i as a means of dialogue about current immigration to Japan.

Koike Hiroshi

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2021
• Grant to Bridge for the Arts and Education

• 2020
• Grant to Bridge for the Arts and Education

• 2019
• Grant to Bridge for the Arts and Education

• 2014
• Theater
• Japan to India

to research traditional and contemporary theater in India beginning in spring 2015

• 1994
• Theater
• Japan to United States

To observe contemporary theater and performance activities in the United States in 1994.

• 1994
• Theater
• Japan to United States

To observe contemporary theater and performance activities in the United States in 1994.

Mino Arata

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2021
• Visual Art
• Japan to United States

To conduct research on the work of Edward Steichen in the archives of the Museum of Modern Art and explore contemporary visual and performing arts in New York City and beyond.

MK Chiharu

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2021
• Grant to Lijiang Studio Foundation

• 2020
• Grant to Lijiang Studio Foundation

• 2019
• Grant to Lijiang Studio Foundation

Morinaga Yasuhiro

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2021
• Grant to Lijiang Studio Foundation

• 2020
• Grant to Lijiang Studio Foundation

• 2019
• Grant to Lijiang Studio Foundation

• 2017
• Grant to UP Center for Ethnomusicology

• 2013
• Music
• Japan to China

for a five-month grant to research the relationship between the living environment and sound/music of ethnic minority groups in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and the Tibet Autonomous Region in China

Shimizu Chatori

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2021
• Music
• Japan to China

To travel to China for research on the Sheng (Chinese bamboo mouth organ) in traditional and contemporary music practice.

Tanaka Miyuki

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2021
• Curation
• Japan to United States

To research the intersection of visual and performing arts and design in the context of creating interdisciplinary programs for individuals with disabilities.

Yamauchi Terue

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2021
• Grant to MILL6 Foundation

Yanagi Miwa

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2021
• Grant to Taipei Culture Foundation (for MoCA Taipei)

• 2014
• Grant to Kanagawa Arts Theatre

Don't Follow the Wind

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 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