Cultural GrantsThe NAF strives to enhance awareness and support of cultural exchange in both the United States and the Netherlands. The Foundation supports cultural events and projects in the two countries.
CULTURAL EVENTS WITH NAF UNDERWRITING
A calendar of events the NAF is supporting financially.
PAST GRANT RECIPIENTS:
A sampler of grantees in the performing and visual arts, historic preservation, literature and other cultural areas.
CULTURAL GRANTS: HOW TO APPLY
Applicants are encouraged to send a letter of intent to the Foundation at least 6 to 9 months ahead of the time when support is needed. Please note that the application should be submitted by mail, NOT by email. The letter should be one page in length and include the following information:
- a brief description of the project,
- date(s) of performance and timeline,
- participants, and
- grant amount requested.
The Cultural Committee will review the letter and provide feedback to applicants by mail. If the Cultural Committee is interested in the project, the applicant will be invited to submit a full grant application.
NAF Cultural Grant Full Application
There is no application form for a NAF Cultural Grant. A completed application should include an original and SEVEN (7) COPIES (total of eight sets) of the following:
■ Cover Letter (maximum 2 pages): The first paragraph must contain a summary of the project and the requested grant amount (maximum 250 words). The cover letter should also include a description of the proposed project, timeline, performing dates, and the professional background of the principal participants, as well as total grant funding requested.
■ Letter(s) of Support from partnering organizations and any contracts or agreements between presenters and the artist may be submitted when relevant.
■ Budget (maximum 1 page): Include an itemized list of proposed expenditures. Other committed and pending funding sources must be included, as well as the status of this funding at the time of application submission. The budget should clearly indicate what item(s) will be covered by the grant.
ONE (1) COPY of any Supporting Material, such as photographs, slides, videos or CD-ROMS. The Committee regrets that such material cannot be returned.
Other important information:
Please do not send extraneous materials (i.e., three-ring binders, plastic sleeves, folders, etc.). Keep your wrapping as simple as possible.
Please use one ONE staple or clip per set. Multiple clips and/or staples delay our preparation process.
Please include your email address, daytime telephone number and mailing address at the top of your cover letter in order that you can be easily reached for questions.
The Cultural Committee reviews proposals four times annually. The deadline for each quarter is February 1, May 1, August 1, and November 1. Applications must be submitted at least SIX (6) MONTHS before the grant is needed to ensure proper consideration. Proposals for projects that are already underway, or have been concluded at the time of the review, are almost never funded. Organizations or individuals who have recently received funding should wait three years before re-applying.
NOTE: Proposals are accepted only by mail.
Please contact the NAF if you have questions or wish to discuss your proposal and required materials:
The Netherland-America Foundation
82 Wall Street, Suite 709
New York, NY 10005-3643
Tel. (212) 825-1221
Successful grantees agree:
■ To file a Final Project Report within three months of the completion of the grant term.
■ To credit the Netherland-America Foundation as having provided funding for the project in all publications, publicity, programs, and website references. The NAF logo must be used. A suggested credit line is the following: “This project has received funding through a grant from the Netherland-America Foundation.”
Copies of such printed material must be included in the Final Project Report.
■ To send a copy of any product (i.e. article, book, exhibition catalogue, CD or video recording) resulting from the project for The Netherland-America Foundation Archive.
FINAL PROJECT GUIDELINES FOR A NAF CULTURAL GRANT
All NAF Cultural Grant awardees are required to submit a Final Project Report within THREE (3) MONTHS of the completion of the grant term. A Final Project Report is required for a one-time award. There are no Report forms, but the guidelines below need to be reviewed. A Project Report should be a maximum of 3 pages (including a 1 page summary of expenditures). Only ONE (1) COMPLETE COPY is required. No new applications for additional grants will be considered if the final report is not submitted.
Grantees must credit The Netherland-America Foundation in all publications, publicity, and programs of the sponsored project. The NAF logo must be used. A suggested credit line is the following: “This project has received funding through a grant from the Netherland-America Foundation.”
Copies of such printed material must be included in the Project Report.
■ Final Project Report for a One-time Award: This Report should offer a cumulative overview of the project. Please provide a concise and clear description of the outcomes of the project, referring back to the original proposal and summarizing what went as planned, as well as the changes and problems encountered. If any publications, papers or presentations resulted from the project, please list them and attach copies. Describe coverage in the media and cite any specific publicity or marketing strategies that were especially helpful. Share any experiences you would like to pass on to future grantees. A summary of expenditures compared to the original grant amount must be included.
Project Reports must be submitted by mail. Faxed or e-mailed Reports will not be accepted.
Project Reports should be mailed to:
The Netherland-America Foundation
82 Wall Street, Suite 709
New York, New York 10005-3643
Phone: 212-825-1221
CULTURAL GRANTS: CALENDAR
The NAF funds a wide range of cultural projects, many of which have a public performance or exhibition component. If one of the following events is taking place in your area, you won’t want to miss it!
CULTURAL GRANTS: PAST RECIPIENTS
From the many high quality applications received, the Cultural Committee of the Netherland-America Foundation awarded grants in 2009 to the following persons, projects and institutions:
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
5 Dutch Days 5 Boroughs:
Dutch Arts and Culture Past & Present
New York City
To support the enhancement and sustainability of 5 Dutch Days 5 Boroughs through 2009, the second installment of a three year commitment in the form of a challenge grant. The grant requested was used to cover administrative costs associated with making the transition from all-volunteer run, ad hoc promotional umbrella to an officially recognized non-profit organization capable of organizing events of its own.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
American Association for Netherlandic Studies, UCLA, and
California Lutheran University
University of California, Los Angeles
To support the design and printing of the program brochure for the 15th Biennial Interdisciplinary Academic Conference for Netherlandic Studies entitled “Crossing Boundaries and Transforming Identities: New Perspectives in Netherlandic Studies” on June 17-19, 2010. Keynote speakers are Dr. Inger Leemans, Radbout Universiteit, Dr. Dirk Geeraerts, University of Leuven, and Dr. Alice van Kalsbeek, Universiteit van Amsterdam. To transport conference attendees to courtesy viewings of the famed Carter collection of Dutch paintings and the Getty Museum’s Netherlandish collection.
Columbia University / Wijnie de Groot
New York City
To support a 2-day international conference on November 13-14, 2009, entitled “Cities in Revolt: New York and Amsterdam, ca. 1650-1830”. The conference aimed to deepen understanding of the political and cultural connections between the Netherlands and America in the 18th century, with a focus on ties between New York and Amsterdam.
The Frick Collection
New York City
To support a lecture associated with the presentation of the exhibition Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection. The speaker, Mària van Berge-Gerbaud, Director, Foundation Custodia, Paris focused on Frits Lugt and his role as a collector.
EXHIBITIONS
Delaware Historical Society
Wilmington
To support an exhibition entitled Light on New Netherland in celebration of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the Delaware Bay and the Delmarva Peninsula and the continued close relationship with the Dutch. from December 14, 2009 to March 20, 2010.
Greenwich House
New York City
To support the exhibition New Amsterdam at 400: A Celebration of Contemporary Dutch Ceramics curated by Sarah Archer, Greenwich House Pottery Director and Wilma Wabnitz, founder and CEO of Wabnitz editions. This exhibition highlighted works produced by companies including Royal Tichelaar Makkum which was founded in 1594 and still uses local Frisian stoneware. In addition, the exhibition showcased ceramics works by other Dutch artists and designers, to include: Neils van Eijk & Miriam van der Lubbe, Cor Unum, Jo Meesters, Alexander van Slobbe and Hella Jongerius.
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
Peekskill, New York
To cover the costs of invitations and brochures as part of the public relations and marketing program for the exhibition Double Dutch from September 13, 2009 – July 26, 2010.
Telefair Museum of Art
Savannah, Georgia
To support the exhibition Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914 from October 1, 2009 – January 10, 2010. Featuring approximately 70 paintings and works on paper drawn from public and private collections throughout America and Europe, the exhibition travels to Cincinnati, Ohio and Grand Rapids, Michigan before completing its tour at the Singer Museum in Laren, Holland from September 16, 2010 through January 16, 2011.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
St. Marks Historic Landmark Fund
New York City
To support the repair and restoration of the West Yard entrance to the historic St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery.
PERFORMANCES
Dance
The Mo(ve)ment Project
Zwolle, Netherlands
To support the US performances of the Netherlands-based multi-media Mo(ve)ment project—employing film, dance and painting--from July 28 through August 6, 2009 in Michigan at the Traverse City Film Festival, Insideout Gallery, and the Montessori School. In January 2010, to cover DVD duplication and submission to of the project to film festivals of the Westonfilm Company’s documentary of the group’s performances.
Music
The Knights Orchestra
Brooklyn, New York
To support the performance of Kevin Beavers’ Roscoe on December 6th, 2009 at the Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Roscoe was commissioned by the NAF in 2001 on the occasion of its 80th anniversary. Both the conductor of The Knights, cellist Eric Jacobsen, and the soloist, violinist Colin Jacobsen, have studied in the Netherlands. Roscoe is based on a text by Pulitzer Prize winning author William Kennedy. The work was first performed by the Albany Symphony Orchestra with soloist Colin Jacobsen. The Knights’ honors and accomplishments include performances at the Dresden Musikfestspiele, repeat performances at the National Gallery in Dublin and international tours with Osvaldo Golijov and his Passion According to St. Mark. The group performs frequently in the New York City area in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Tonic, The Brooklyn Museum, Le Poisson Rouge, Celebrate Brooklyn and the Whitney Museum.
Japan Society
New York City
To support the Japan Society’s two-day experimental music program Japan Transatlantic: Tokyo-Berlin on May 7 and 8, 2010, in collaboration with STEIM. Located in Amsterdam, STEIM runs a laboratory, workshop, international meeting place, artist hotel and production office. STEIM Artistic Director Takuro Mizuta-Lippit will curate a line-up of works from Japanese, American, and European artists. The program featured a lecture, a family-oriented program and culminated in a full-length evening concert with performances by artists from Japan, the Netherlands, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Stichting Transatlantic
Amsterdam, Netherlands
To support the US tour (concerts in New York City and Washington, DC; artist residencies and masterclasses/workshops in Dayton, Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois; lecture and student workshop at UCLA, Berkeley) of One Minute More in October 2009. One Minute More consists of 60 world-premiere compositions and 60 new films by a team of Dutch filmmakers, reflecting the “Dutch Design” movement. The collection was released on DVD by pianist Guy Livingston, an American artist based in Amsterdam.
TROMP International Music Competition 2010 (for solo percussion)
Eindhoven, Netherlands
To support American composer Michael Torke teaching, coaching, and motivating young composers at Dutch music conservatories. Funding specifically supports Torke’s involvement in the TROMP composition competition November 13 - 22, 2010, for which he serves as a jury member; and the four-day composition master classes for conservatory students.
Theater
Erwin Maas/Theatre Laboratory Workshop
New York City
To cover the advertising and marketing costs associated with the presentation of Alex Warmerdam’s play Welcome to the Woods, translated and directed by NAF alumnus Erwin Maas. The play was performed at a site specific gallery space in Chelsea.
Film
Other Minds
San Francisco, California
To support the appearance of Dutch Filmmaker Frank Scheffer at the West Coast premiere of The One all Alone on April 26, 2010 in San Francisco at the Sundance Kabuki Theater in Japantown. The film was presented as part of the Pacific Rim Festival. In this documentary, Scheffer presents the life and work of composer Edgard Varèse. Scheffer is an internationally recognized master of sound and image, and his films on music constitute an overview of great composers of the 20th century including Gustave Mahler, Brian Eno, Frank Zappa, Elliot Carter and Tan Dun. He founded Allegri Film Company which specializes in documentaries on music and art.
RESEARCH
L.A.H. Bok
Amsterdam, Netherlands
To support a research project focused on locating Old Dutch cemeteries in the Hudson Valley and New York City. The grant was used to cover costs associated with a two week visit in the fall of 2009 to visit cemeteries and present lectures at Columbia University and the Holland Society and to do further studies in local archives.
Grisleda Molemans
Los Angeles, California
To cover travel expenses for interview trips in the US with the purpose of completing the book project entitled, Black skin, Orange heart. The interviews are intended to document the living memories of the oldest descendants (born 1915-35 in the Dutch East Indies) of the African warriors, the so-called ‘black Dutchman’, recruited or bought as prisoners of war or slaves to serve as soldiers in the ranks for the Royal Dutch Indies Army.
Miriam Mijatovich-Keesing
Heemstede, Netherlands
To support the ongoing research on the unaccompanied German and Austrian children who went to the Netherlands after Kristallnacht in November 1938. Ms. Mijatovich-Keesing has interviewed almost all the surviving children still living in the Netherlands. Grants funds were used to cover the costs of travel and sojourn to the United States, where many of these children also went before or after the war. Though most of the children were born Germans, most of them still speak Dutch and think of themselves so.
Jack Pyburn, FAIA
To support a research project related to the history of the Dutch precast architectural concrete system, Schokboten, and its influence on architecture in the U.S. in the mid 20th century. The grant was used to cover the costs of a graduate student from Georgia Institute of Technology College of Architecture to assist with the organization of information gathered from the archives of Mr. Geelhoed and Eastern Schokbeton into a coherent timeline of work performed in the U.S. and into appropriate categories of information including marketing documents, technical production documents project specific correspondence and construction related documents such as shop drawings and design calculations. The research was conducted between June and November 2009.
Dr. Aneke Van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven
Amsterdam, Netherlands
To support the final stages of the preparation of a monograph of 17th century painters Jan Baptist Weenix and his son Jan Weenix. The funds were used to cover travel and expenses for photographic materials in Amsterdam, January – June 2010.
RESIDENCIES
Joe Diebes
Brooklyn, New York
To support travel expenses and honoria for American composer Joe Diebes to develop and present his new chamber orchestra for solo singer and electronics at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) in Amsterdam, May 16-30, 2010. The development consists of workshop style rehearsals with the solo singer/performer, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Steim technical staff. The work being developed, Conversation Piece, is an exploration of contemporary culture’s entanglement with technology. It will be performed for general public on May 20, 2010.
Sarah Mockford
Manassas, Virginia
To support the material and rental costs related to a four-month residency (March through June, 2010) and exhibition in the Kanaal 10 (non-profit artists’ collective) guest studio in Amsterdam. The artist will use the residency to develop The Remnant Project, a series of artworks (painted collages, mixed-media constructions and small sculptures) that will explore the notion of place through the reconstruction of found imagery and material from the U.S. and the Netherlands. The goal is to bring ideas and images relating to the contemporary cultural landscape of both countries into the public sphere.
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