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

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.

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.

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.

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

Drifters International

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2020
• Theater
• Japan to Asia

A 1-month Organization/Project Grant to provide support for the Jejak Tabi Exchange virtual platform, designed to share, exchange, and explore critical ideas and practices in contemporary art practice, and to discuss the future of international cultural exchange. Fiscally sponsored by NPO Open Network for Performing Arts Management

General Non-Profit Incorporated Organization Tokyo Biennale

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2020
• Visual Art
• Japan to Asia

A 1-year Organization/Project Grant to provide support for the 2020/2021 Tokyo Biennale to enable a series of web-based, multilingual publications to create a context around the event’s participating artists and dialogue related to critique and media practice

NPO Dance Box

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2020
• Dance
• Japan to Vietnam

A 1-month Organization/Project Grant to provide support for a virtual program with Water Puppet artists in Vietnam, showcasing this art form to engage with Kobe’s community of Vietnamese immigrants.

• 2020
• Dance

To provide for Covid-19 relief

• 2016
• Dance
• United States to Japan

to support the participation of choreographer Darrell Jones in a collaborative residency in Kobe, Japan in May 2017

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2020
• Photography
• United States to Japan

To enable curator Aily Nash and Harvard Film Archive Director Haden Guest to curate programs in the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions in February 2020

Fukushima Azusa

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2019
• Grant to Bridge for the Arts and Education

Hojo Tomoko

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2019
• Music
• Japan to United States

to conduct archival research on sound art and experimental music in New York City, with a particular focus on Yoko Ono and the intersection of feminism and sound