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ARTS GRANTS IN TELEVISION/VIDEO/FILM



 
 1965   
Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City.  Toward the costs of further developing its programs.    $ 500,000
Opera Group, Boston. Toward the creative costs of television production of an opera, in collaboration with WGBH   and National Educational Television.                $ 15,000
 
 1966 
Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City.  Toward the cost of producing an educational series of television programs on Shakespearean drama.                         $ 172,000
Stan VanDerBeek, filmmaker, Colorado. $ 14,500
Stan Brakhage, filmmaker, Colorado.                                                                  $ 14,400
Tony Conrad, filmmaker, New York City.                                                                    $ 14,400
Sheldon Renan, New York City.  To enable him to complete a study of the independent American filmmaker. $ 2,270
 
 1967 
WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston.  Toward the costs of an experimental workshop on television program concepts and production techniques for cultural programming            $ 275,000
Bay Area Educational Television Association, San Francisco.  Toward the costs of an experimental workshop on cultural programming.                                                   $ 150,000
State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York.  To enable Nam June Paik to serve as a consultant in communications research in the Instructional Resources Center of the university.   $ 13,750
 
 1968 
National Educational Television and Radio Center, New York City.  Toward the costs of producing a series of programs on regional theater in the United States               $ 200,000

 
 1969                                                                          
University of Alaska.  To enable Dr. Charles Northrip to continue his work on behalf of the Alaska Educational/Public Broadcasting Commission toward the development of educational television in Alaska.                        $ 24,645
WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston.  Toward the costs of artists-in-residence at the Project for New Television. $ 300,000
Duke University, Durham, NC.  Toward the costs of filming a series, "Dance as an Art Form," by the Murray Louis Dance Company.                                                                    $ 25,000
Connecticut College, NewLondon, CT.  To enable Ward Cannel to continue exploration of the possibility of creating video essays on the nature and image of man.               $ 15,000
Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York City.  Toward the costs of experimental programs in film education in the schools and for the encouragement of cooperative programs in all aspects of film on the part of various municipal film programs.                                 $ 15,000
Richard Schickel, New York City. To work on a biography of American film pioneer D.W. Griffith.                                                                $ 7,215
   
 1971   
Bay Area Educational Television Association, San Francisco.  For use by the National Center for Experiments in Television toward the costs of developing a program to train professionally oriented students in the creative and artistic uses of television at selective university experimental centers, for a four-year period.                                                             $ 300,000
Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City. For use by the National Educational Television (NET) and WNET/Thirteen toward the costs of establishing an experimental television laboratory workshop. $ 150,000
Regional Plan Association, New York City.  Toward the costs of planning and initiating the proposed television town meetings, "Choices For '76."                                         $ 25,000

New School for Social Research, New York City.  Toward the costs of establishing, in conjunction with Global Village, an experimental video workshop.                               

$ 14,500
   

 1972 

 

Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City.  For use by WNET/Thirteen toward the costs of the second phase of development of its Experimental Television Laboratory, for two years. 

$ 400,000

University of Florida.  Toward the completion of Radha, a film of Ruth St.Denis's dance work.                                                                                                                            

$ 15,000

International Film Seminars, Vermont.  To enable Willard Van Dyke to research and prepare for publication of a book on the history of documentary film.                             

$ 4,000
   
 1973   
Global Village Resource Video Research Center, New York City.Toward a training program to develop methods of using portable television as a communications resource for developing countries. $ 25,000

Film Art Fund, New York City.  Toward the costs of a film research program and activities of a national committee on media services.                                                            

$ 25,000

Electronic Arts Intermix, New York City.  Toward the costs of the international seminar/conference, "Open Circuits," to explore the cultural potential of television.        

  $ 10,000
   
 1974   

Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City.  For use by WNET/Thirteen toward the costs of the Television Laboratory.                                                                 

$ 340,000

WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston.  Toward the costs of the WGBH New Television Workshop.                                                                                                                  

$ 250,000

KQED, San Francisco.  For use by the National Center for Experiments in Television toward the costs of further development of workshops in experimental television at selected university centers.

$ 100,000

Bay Area Educational Television Association, San Francisco.  For use by the National Center for Experiments in Television for the research phase of a humanities television project.

$ 51,000

Connecticut College, New London, CT. For the American Dance Festival's Dance Television Workshop.                                                         

$ 10,000

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY. Toward the costs of "Video and the Museum," conference and exhibition.                                                           

$ 5,000

 

 

 1975   

Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City.  Toward the costs of further development of the Television Laboratory at WNET/Thirteen.                                

$ 162,000

WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston.  Toward the further development of the WGBH New Television Workshop.                                                                                          

$ 140,000

KQED, San Francisco.  For use by the National Center for Experiments in Television for the second phase of a humanities television project (jointly with the Humanities program).

$ 45,000

Cable Arts Foundation, New York City.  Toward the costs of a 10-city test project leading to a demonstration of ways in which arts programming can be developed for cable television audiences.

$ 32,826

Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA.  To improve and further develop an editing and post-production studio to serve video and television artists in the Los Angeles area

$ 30,900

Electronic Arts Intermix, New York City.  Toward the development of the Artists' Videotape Resource Project.                                                                                                           

$ 14,165

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.  To enable video artist Ron Hays to be a fellow of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies.                                     

$ 12,500

Electronic Arts Intermix, New York City.  Toward the costs of further developing its post-production editing facility and for other assistance to video artists.                            

$ 10,000

Raindance Foundation, New York City.  Toward the costs of creative programming and for Volume III of Radical Software.                                                                               

$ 7,400
   
 1976   

Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City- Toward the costs of further development of the Television Laboratory at WNET/Thirteen.                                

$ 200,000

WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston.  Toward the further development of the WGBH New Television Workshop.                                                                                          

$ 182,000

WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston. To enable video artists to collaborate on the project "Collisions."                                                                                                             

$ 35,000

Don Forests, video artist, Kenmore, NY. To enable him to develop cultural programming on foreign cultures for the Visa series.                                                                  

$ 35,000

Daniel Del Solar, Brooks Johnson, Judith Williams, San Francisco. Toward the costs of a feasibility study of Bay Area video needs.                                                                

$ 30,000

West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Authority, Charleston, WV. To be used by WMUL toward the development of a pilot program on the musical culture of the upper southeastern and mountain states

$ 25,000

Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri.  To support a video curriculum development project.                                                                                                                                   

$ 24,500

Global Village Video Resource Center, Inc., New York City.Toward the costs of the Ten Cities Public Television Workshop in videocassette systems

$ 20,000

Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City.  To enable Ed Emshwiller to be an artist-in-residence at the Television Laboratory                                                      

$ 18,000

Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City.  To enable Nam June Paik to be an artist-in-residence at the Television Laboratory.                                                     

$ 17,000

Film Art Fund, New York City. Toward the support of the video program of Anthology Film Archives.

$ 16,000

David Dowe, Jerry Hunt, Dallas. Toward the costs of developing a Texas Experimental Television Network.                                                                                                        

$ 14,000

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Toward the costs of expanding its film exhibition program to include the works of video artists.             

$ 13,900

Research Foundation of the State University of New York, Albany, NY.  To undertake a feasibility study of the potential of the state university system to produce creative programming for television in the arts 

$ 11,500

Cunningham Dance Foundation, New York City. Toward the costs of a video dance project.                                                                                                                                   

$ 10,000

Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Toward the costs of developing a Texas Experimental Television Network.                                                                                

$ 6,000

Stephen Beck, video artist, Berkeley, CA. To enable him to acquire equipment to continue his work in video.                                                                                                

$ 4,000

Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, Solomon Islands.  For the documentation of the Cultural Workshop of Melanasia.                                                                               

$ 3,000

Bill Viola, video artist.  For the recording and documentation ofthe Cultural Workshop of Melanasia.

$ 850
   
 1977   

Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City.  For use by the Television Laboratory at WNET/Thirteen toward the costs of two programs for the Visa series                                                                       

$ 65,900

Russell Connor, New York City. For the development of two video projects for the Visa series.                                                               

$ 35,000

Bill Viola, video artist, New York City. For the development of a video project for the Visa series.                                                                

$ 35,000

Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco.  Toward the costs of a pilot program for independent video artists/producers in the San Francisco Bay Area.                          

$ 35,000

Cable Arts Foundation, New York City. Toward the costs of developing an editing and post-production facility.                                                                                                

$ 34,000

Nam June Paik, video artist, New York City.                                                       

$ 27,000

Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri. To support a Video Curriculum Development Project.                                                                                                                                                                 

$ 25,000

Electronic Arts Intermix, New York City. Toward the costs of further developing its post-production and editing facility.                                                                                                  

$ 23,000

Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Toward the costs of expanding its video program.                                                                                                                                                                    

$ 20,000

Washington Community Video Center, Washington, DC. For Televisions magazine.                                                                                                                                                                                          

$ 18,000

Cable Arts Foundation, New York City. Toward the costs of final editing of Visa projects.                                                                                                                                                                       

$ 18,000

Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City. For use by the Television Laboratory for fellowship assistance for a writer-in-residence.                                             

$ 18,000

Doug Michels, video artist, San Francisco. Toward the documentation of Ant Farm's Dolphin Embassy expedition.                                                                                                                                           

$ 15,000

WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston. To enable Charles Johnson to be an artist-in-residence at the Now Television Workshop.                                                                                           

$ 15,000

Robert and Ingrid Wiegand, video artists. For filming family life and culture in India for the Visa series-                                                                                                                                                   

$ 13,500
Mary Ellen Bute, filmmaker, New York City. To enable her to work on a film project concerned with Walt Whitman. $ 10,000