Special Initiative 2000 Grantees
Michelle Kellond Amos ( Louisville): $3,000 to provide a studio space to children and adolescents from the Boys and Girls Club of Louisville.
Nana Yaa Asantewaa ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in a music and oral tradition project, Healing Spirit.
Bell-Whitley Community Action Agency, Inc. ( Pineville): $5,000 to develop craft market for low-income women in Bell County .
Berea Arts Council ( Berea): $5,000 to create a large outdoor mural.
Betty Boggs ( Whitesburg): $3,000 to create a writing workshop for women from eastern Kentucky who lost their mothers at a young age and women who are victims of domestic violence.
Sylvia Bruton, Patricia Wetherton, and Naneki Elliot ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage them in taking a play by Norma Cole, Just Desserts, to rural areas of the state.
Center for Women and Families ( Louisville): $3,000 to work with victims of violence and produce a theatrical presentation.
Mary B. Craik ( Louisville): $3,000 to produce large fiber art pieces dealing with violence against women.
Phyllis Free ( Louisville): $1,000 to upgrade her musical instruments and further her artistic growth.
Pamela Gray ( Farmington): $1,000 to work with young girls in collecting stories from older women and retelling the stories through poetry, song, and dance.
Carolyn G. Hall ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in introducing journal writing to marginalized women.
Bani Hines-Hudson ( Louisville): $3,000 for a project that nurtures artistic development of African American high school girls.
Mary E. Jefferson ( Louisville): $3,000 for Dreams First, an arts mentoring program for girls.
Rema Keen ( Louisville): $1,000 to tour The Adventures of Molly Whuppie, a performance piece about gender roles, through rural Kentucky .
Kentucky Women Writers Conference ( Lexington): $3,000 to begin a program focusing on young women.
Kim Klein ( Louisville): $3,000 to introduce middle-school age girls to photography.
Lorna Littleway ( Louisville): $3,000 to expand the annual Juneteenth Festival with new programming focusing mainly on works of women authors and women characters.
New Opportunity School for Women ( Berea): $3,000 for a program on self-expression through the arts.
Northern Kentucky University Women’s Center ( Highland Heights): $1,000 to bring diverse women together to make quilts for the Women’s Crisis Center of Northern Kentucky .
Joyce Ogden and Kathleen Nesbitt ( Louisville): $3,000 for a public art project with inner-city youth.
Mimi Pickering ( Whitesburg): $3,000 for a video/new media project, Without A Net: Women, Work and Welfare.
Susan Reed ( Louisville): $1,000 for an arts project working with AIDS-infected mothers and their adolescent daughters.
Reel World String Band and George Ella Lyon ( Lexington): $3,000 to present concerts interweaving poetry and music as part of an Appalachian Women’s Alliance project.
River City Drum Corp. Cultural Arts Institute, Inc. ( Louisville): $3,000 to create a young women’s performing ensemble.
Robert Williams Cultural Center ( Lexington): $3,000 to provide a quilting and writing class for women.
Samiyra Shabazz ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in developing a music video for a new CD.
Fran Thompson ( Louisville): $1,000 for a writing and history project with high-school students, focusing initially on women in the military.
Loan P. Vo ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in publishing Dan Chim Viet, a magazine for Vietnamese youth.
Wilderness Trace Family YMCA ( Danville): $3,000 for an arts and creativity program.
Jennifer Woodrow ( Hazel Green): $5,000 to form a multigenerational group of women into a women’s art collective.
Mary Yates ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in continuing her photography project, Woman’s Work.
KFW Grantees for 2000
Clara Atkins-Pope ( Harlan): $1,000 to encourage her work with Celtic harp music in health care facilities.
Gabrielle Beasley ( Hyden): $1,000 to encourage her in photographing Kentucky 's Appalachian women at work.
Jeanne Beaver ( Murray): $1,000 to encourage her work in sculptural jewelry.
Linda Bowman and Kathleen O'Neil ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage them in developing studio space.
Walter Brock and Susan Moffett ( Louisville): $5,000 to collaborate on a series of prints and mixed media images.
Jude Chambers ( Canmer): $1,000 to encourage her work as a potter by providing materials to build wood-fired kiln.
Marie Davis ( Louisville): $5,000 to develop comic book package Kentucky Tales for middle school students.
Anita Douthat ( Alexandria): $3,000 to continue her work with photogram process.
Nina Fichter ( Wilder): $3,000 to develop new work of feminist fairy tales.
Tamara Fitzpatrick ( Louisville): $5,000 to interview and photograph women in Irish peace movement.
Barbara Franklin ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in producing her play Beyond Dorothy Parker.
Rinda Frye ( Carrollton): $3,000 for a performance about women’s body images, pornography and media, Bodies in Motion: My Hips and Thighs Speak Rapture.
Collette Gabrielle ( Lexington): $3,000 to purchase a Leach Treadle Wheel and study with Cynthia Bringle to continue her clay work.
Joyce Garner and Angie Reed Garner ( Prospect): $3,000 for a mother-daughter painting collaboration, Yes We Both Paint.
Lida Gordon ( Louisville): $1,000 encourage creative explorations in embroidery.
Carla Gover and Diane Timmons ( Berea): $1,000 to encourage a music composition honoring feminine principal called MountainMind: MotherMedicine.
Sarah Gutwirth ( New Concord): $3,000 to develop a body of work in oils called Engaging Objects.
Nicole Hand ( Almo): $3,000 to continue work in printmaking.
Kiya Heartwood and Miriam Davidson ( Stamping Ground): $5,000 to record and produce a Wishing Chair CD and provide successful and socially responsible role-models of female musicians.
Barbara Houghton ( Alexandria): $5,000 to continue work in digital imagemaking and installation.
Erin Jones ( Louisville): $3,000 to produce a one-woman performance, Dixie Highway Dreams.
Diane Kruer ( Fort Thomas): $3,000 to continue exploration of feminine art to prepare for one-woman show.
Toni Meriah Kruse ( Lexington): $3,000 to produce a dance initiative, Birds in Flight.
Aundra LaFayette and Yetunde' Adeyinka-De'Leon ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage creation of a performance piece called The Women of Harlem Renaissance.
Glynis Mary McManamon ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in developing an exhibit addressing concerns of women and substance abuse.
Pamela Oldfield Meade ( West Liberty): $3,000 to create a series of paintings, The Work They’ve Done.
Elizabeth Mesa-Gaido ( Morehead): $3,000 to assist with the building of a studio for installation work.
Ardis Moonlight ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in feltmaking.
Alice Noel ( Bowling Green): $3,000 to continue her work in mixed-media sculptures.
Carrie Lyn Peterson ( Lexington): $1,000 to encourage her in photography work.
Licia Neal Priest ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in mosaic work.
Cynthia Reynolds ( Louisville): $1,000 encourage work in clay through purchase of wet clay mixer and kiln.
Beth Ellen Rosenbaum ( Lexington): $5,000 to establish a music and movement program for at-risk teenage mothers and their children.
Sharon Ruble ( Lexington): $1,000 to encourage her in photographing Kentucky women who play, write, and sing music.
Rebekka Seigel ( Owenton): $5,000 to fund her Paper Doll Quilts project.
Jessica Shull ( Louisville): $3,000 to illustrate ornithological field guide of Paraguay .
Lucianne Siers ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her work with an arts program for Alzheimer’s patients.
Cheryl Skinner ( Louisville): $3,000 for recording equipment.
Kim Stacy ( Willisburg): $1,000 to encourage her in woodworking.
Darla Thompson( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in drawing.
Melinda Walters ( Louisville): $3,000 to purchase a welder and a ceramic kiln.
Dane Waters ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in teaching art to inner-city children.
Gayle Williamson ( Louisville): $5,000 to create an exhibit of stitchery and wearable art with women at Wayside Christian Mission.
Neisja Yenawine ( Louisville): $3,000 to create a series of collaged apron drawings and to tape interviews with the women who wore them.
Ars Femina ( Louisville): $7,000 to produce CDs of women composers’ works (pre-1800) and distribute to public radio stations within U.S. .
InterAction Theater ( Bloomington, IN): $1,000 to produce a show in concert with with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Louisville on domestic and relationship violence.
Jefferson Community College ( Louisville): $1,000 for the Performing Arts Learning Seminar (PALS), a forum for girls to create art concerning history of women’s movement.
Kentucky Museum ( Bowling Green): $5,000 to develop exhibition of work by Kentucky women artists prior to the women’s movement.
Mary Anderson Center ( Mount St. Francis , IN): $6,000 to underwrite and market five residencies for women visual artists from Kentucky .
Murray State University , Dept. of Music ( Murray): $2,000 for the Athena Festival - promoting performance and study of music by women composers, past and present.
Nazareth Arts for Life ( Nazareth): $2,000 to present a workshop and model a supportive connection between and arts organization and a domestic abuse shelter.
New Opportunity School for Women ( Berea): $1,000 to present a program on self-exploration through the arts and to develop community arts programs.
Roadside Theater ( Whitesburg): $3,000 to partially underwrite Voices From the Battlefront, a performance workshop focusing on domestic violence.
Southeast Community College Appalachian Program ( Cumberland): $4,000 for workshops and screenings in conjunction with the photography exhibit, Serving Home and Community: Women of Southern Appalachia.
Squallis Puppeteers ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage them in The Birth Puppet Show.
The Living Arts and Science Center ( Lexington): $1,000 for a visual arts program for breast cancer survivors, Art Expressions.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts ( Sweet Briar, VA): $6,000 to provide two residencies to Kentucky women visual artists.
KFW Grantees for 1999
Dianne Aprile ( Louisville): $5,000 for her book, Eenie & Me: A Story of Resilience & Recovery.
Nana Yaa Asantewaa ( Louisville): $5,000 to work on new scripts for the Kentuckiana African American Arts Series.
Janet Boyd ( Louisville): $3,000 to write a biography of Thelma Stovall.
Joan Brannon ( Lexington): $5,000 to make a video of African American elder-women living in Kentucky .
Katherine Brown ( Lexington): $1,000 to encourage her in writing non-fiction.
Nickole Brown ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in rewriting 19th century ghost stories.
Vickie Cimprich ( Fort Mitchell): $1,000 to encourage her in writing poetry.
Mexie Cottle ( Lexington): $1,000 to encourage her in writing fiction.
Kim Edwards ( Lexington): $3,000 to work on her novel Comet Wine and research several other works.
Janet Carey Eldred ( Lexington): $1,000 to encourage her in writing non-fiction.
Nikky Finney ( Lexington): $5,000 to complete a novel.
Catherine Fosl ( Louisville): $3,000 to prepare her biography of Anne Braden for publication.
Paula French ( Louisville): $3,000 to continute to write poetry.
Nancy Gall-Clayton ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in playwriting.
Albertus Gorman ( Louisville): $1,000 to write a catalogue to accompany a women sculptors exhibition - ENID : Generations of Women Sculptors.
Christie Green ( Berea): $1,000 to encourage her in writing fiction.
Barbara Hausman ( Lexington): $3,000 to complete a novel.
Kristin Herbert ( Louisville): $5,000 to continue to write poetry.
Christie Hodgen ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in writing fiction.
Mary Jefferson ( Louisville): $5,000 to write and develop a script for a video documentary on Dr. M. Celeste Nichols.
Carridder Jones ( Louisville): $3,000 to research the lives of women descendants of the “Negro Hamlets” in Lexington .
Gwendolyn Kelly ( Louisville): $3,000 for research needed for writing a novel.
Kate Larken ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in writing a script based on stories of women of various ages.
Lorna Littleway ( Louisville): $3,000 to work on two playwriting projects.
Ronni Lundy ( Louisville): $3,000 to write a novel about two Kentucky girls who journey across the country.
George Ella Lyon ( Lexington): $1,000 to encourage her in writing Memory Skin.
Patricia Jean Manion ( Louisville): $3,000 to prepare the manuscript about six women missionaries for publication.
Ruthie Maslin ( Richmond): $1,000 to encourage her work on the play The Rosary Women.
Pamela McMichael ( Prospect): $5,000 to work on a play about social justice activist Bette StrangeCloud.
Jocelyn Moore ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in writing fiction and pursuing publication.
Ann Neelon ( Murray): $5,000 to continue work on a collection of poems.
Mary O’Dell ( Louisville): $3,000 to continue work on a collection of poems, Casting for Turnip.
Elizabeth Oakes and Jane Olmsted ( Bowling Green): $1,000 to begin a collection of poems by Kentucky feminists and activists.
Sandra Pfeifer ( Simpson , IL): $1,000 to encourage her work on a documentary film about a rural homemaker born and raised in western Kentucky .
Lynn Pruett ( Lexington): $1,000 to encourage her work on the novel The Body Season.
Frances Purifoy ( Louisville): $3,000 to write about women’s cross-race relationships from a study of lives of women at Farmington Historic Home and Locust Grove.
Deborah Reed ( Sadieville): $1,000 encouragement in fiction writing
Justine Rischardson ( Whitesburg): $3,000 for developing educational resources for the film Girls’ Hoops.
Jo Ann Ross ( Augusta): $1,000 to encourage her in playwriting.
Anne Shelby ( Oneida): $3,000 to develop a play based on eastern Kentucky folktales.
Shanna Smith ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in writing poetry.
Amy Thompson ( Columbus , OH): $1,000 to encourage her work in Kentucky for a documentary about women’s literary clubs.
Cia White ( Louisville): $5,000 to complete a memoir.
Crystal Wilkinson ( Lexington): $1,000 to encourge her in writing fiction.
Melissa Wilson ( Louisville): $3,000 to write a series of essays about her sister’s experiences in the military.
Laverne Zabielski ( Lexington): $5,000 to complete her novel The Garden Girls.
Appalshop, Inc . ( Whitesburg): $5,000 for a documentary about a battered women’s shelter.
Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning ( Lexington): $5,000 to establish the Young Writer’s Institute for Women.
Eastern Kentucky University Women’s Studies Program ( Richmond): $1,000 for A Celebration of Appalachian Women.
The Feminist Press ( New York , NY): $1,000 to support events in Kentucky during Estella Conwill Majozo’s book tour.
Mary Anderson Center ( Mount St. Francis , IN): $6,000 for a 30-day residency and four 2-week residencies for women writers from Kentucky .
Pleiades Theatre Company ( Louisville): $1,000 to develop vignettes for radio based on women featured in the book Kentucky Women.
Portland Museum ( Louisville): $5,000 for an internet/technology project, Constellation.
The Kentucky Women Writers Conference ( Lexington): $8,000 for expenses of the 1999 conference.
KFW Grantees for 1998
Jeannine Anderson ( Berea): $3,000 to build a studio.
Mia Brownell ( Murray): $1,000 to begin a series of paintings.
Roberta Burnes ( Lexington): $1,000 for a recording of Shaker women’s music.
Cyndy Carroll ( Dreyfus): $1,000 to encourage her in woodworking.
Franzee Dolbeare ( Louisville): $1,000 to support an exhibition of her and her students’ work at U of L.
Ana England ( Highland Heights): $3,000 to continue sculpture work.
Liz Bussey Fentress ( Louisville): $5,000 to develop performance based on her experience with the circus.
Barbara Franklin, Rebekka Seigel, Judy Sizemore, and Cynthia Cooke ( Louisville): $5,000 to begin a quilting collaboration with women from Eastern Kentucky and Louisville .
Sarah Frederick( Louisville): $5,000 residency at Banff Centre for Arts.
Carol Grape ( Villa Hills): $3,000 to complete work for an exhibition.
Laura Hartford ( Louisville): $3,000 for photographic equipment and supplies.
Melanie Vincent Havlik ( Brandenburg): $3,000 to establish a darkroom.
Clare Hirn ( Louisville): $3,000 develop large figurative egg tempera painting.
Imi Hwangbo ( Louisville): $3,000 to complete a sculpture installation.
Mary Jefferson ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in producing the Kentucky Women’s Heritage Project.
Mary Dennis Kannappell ( Prospect): $1,000 encourage work in multimedia sculptures.
Gwendolyn Kelly ( Louisville): $3,000 to set up intaglio printmaking shop.
Brenda Kiefer and Kimberly Lawless ( Louisville): $3,000 to continue work in collage.
Collis Caroline Marshall ( Louisville): $3,000 to establish an arts program at the Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women.
Sue Massek ( Willisburg): $5,000 for a songwriting project on women from Clay County , Kentuck.
Beth McNeill ( Louisville): $3,000 to hold choreography conferences for young Kentucky women.
Cari Norris( Ravenna): $1,000 to encourage her in recording music of her grandmother, Lily May Ledford.
Joyce Ogden( Louisville): $5,000 to create a series of cast bronze sculptures.
Jacque Parsley ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her continuing creativity.
Davie Reneau and Jennifer L. Gandee ( Glasgow): $3,000 for their ceramic studio.
Andrea Rodriguez ( Louisville): $3,000 create work for an exhibition.
Lily Rose( Louisville): $1,000 for a photographic essay on a girls’ school in Columbia .
Laura Rosenfeld ( Highland Heights): $3,000 to continue work in figurative painting.
Lynn Slaughter ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in a project, Women Artists Coming of Age: Flying at Fifty and Beyond.
Melinda Snyder ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in conducting art classes at Meyzeek Middle School .
Karen Spears ( Lexington): $3,000 for painting materials and studio improvements.
Spring Ulmer ( Millstone): $3,000 for a photography project.
Artswatch ( Louisville): $3,000 for a production of a new play by Pam McMichael.
Elder Dance Express ( Louisville): $3,000 to choreograph new work.
Headlands Center for the Arts ( Sausalito , CA): $5,000 for a residency program for women artists from Kentucky .
Intuition Theatre ( Cincinnati , OH): $1,000 to encourage them in creating a play developed from stories from women throughout Kentucky .
Juneteenth Legacy Theatre ( Louisville): $5,000 for its second annual Juneteenth Festival of New Works.
Mary Anderson Center ( Mount St. Francis , IN): $5,000 for five residencies for women artists from Kentucky .
Murray State University , Dept. of Music ( Murray): $5,000 for a music festival and competition.
Pleiades Theatre Company ( Louisville): $3,000 for expenses of its 1998 season.
PNEUMA ( Louisville): $3,000 for dance theatre productions created by young inner-city artists.
The Kentucky Women Writers Conference ( Lexington): $15,000 for its 20th anniversary conference
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts ( Sweet Briar, VA): $4,600 for two residencies for women artists, choreographers and composers from Kentucky .
Women’s Studio Workshop ( Rosendale , NY): $5,000 for a residency for a woman artist from Kentucky .
Yaddo ( Saratoga Springs , NY): $5,000 for a residency for a woman artist from Kentucky.
KFW Grantees for 1997
Constance Alexander ( Murray): $3,000 to complete a novel.
Linda Elisabeth Beattie and Mary Angela Shaughnessy ( Louisville): $5,000 for a project about ten women whose prison sentences were commuted by Governor Jones.
Barbara Blackburn-Metzmeier ( Midway): $1,000 to conduct an autobiography workshop for women in prison.
Erma Bush ( Louisville): $3,000 to research, write, and perform new work.
Judy Rae Cavagnero ( Lexington): $3,000 for a poetry project.
Kathleen Driskell ( Louisville): $5,000 to continue writing poetry.
Edna Kay Duggins ( Leitchfield): $1,000 to encourage her in writing about Kentucky farm women.
Naneki Elliott and Norma Cole ( Monticello): $3,000 to continue work on a play, Just Desserts.
Kelly Ellis ( Lexington): $5,000 to complete a collection of poetry, Seventh and Lime.
Normandi Ellis ( Berea): $5,000 to complete a collection of short stories.
Carol Francisco ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in writing.
Barbara Franklin ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in playwriting.
Phyllis Free ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her work on a play about adoption.
Nan Goheen ( Louisville): $5,000 to continue writing fiction.
The Shirley Hayden-Whitley ( Louisville): $3,000 to continue writing fiction.
Kristin Herbert ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in writing poetry.
Cass Irvin ( Louisville): $5,000 to complete a book, The Gimp Mystique.
Judi Jennings ( Louisville): $3,000 to write the story of 18th century feminist Mary Morris Knowles.
Leatha Kendrick ( East Point): $5,000 to work on a book of poetry.
Kathi Kern ( Lexington): $5,000 to write book on the life of Anna Cashot, slave from Bardstown , Kentucky .
Cynthia Flanagan Lamb ( Louisville): $5,000 to work on a book about funeral food.
Eddie Lueken ( Louisville): $3,000 for a poetry project.
Heather Lyons ( Winchester): $5,000 for a documentary on the work of photographer, Doris Ulmann.
Joyce MacDonald ( Louisville): $3,000 for work on a manuscript, African Women in Renaissance Texts.
Patricia Jean Manion( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in writing about six women missionaries in China .
Eren McGinnis, Café Sisters ( Lexington): $5,000 for work on the documentary Tobacco Road.
Kristina McGrath( Louisville): $5,000 to continue work on a novel.
Michele Moore ( Louisville): $3,000 for research needed for works of fiction.
Mary Pat Nimon ( Louisville): $1,000 to work on a novel.
Jo Ann Ross ( Augusta): $1,000 to encourage her in fiction writing.
Karen Samples ( Covington): $5,000 to work on book about photos in Eastern Kentucky coal camps.
(Barbara) Alice Templeton ( Bowling Green): $5,000 to work on a book of poetry.
R. Shashu Tucker ( Louisville): $1,000 to work on a book about stress reduction.
Julia Watts ( Williamsburg): $5,000 to continue writing fiction.
Juanita White ( Louisville): $5,000 to work on a play, An Interview with Dinnie Thompson.
Headlands Center for the Arts ( Sausalito , CA): $5,000 for a residency program for women writers from Kentucky .
Louisville Central Community Centers, Inc. ( Louisville): $1,300 to assist aspiring playwright, Tabatha Ross.
Mary Anderson Center ( Mount St. Francis , IN): $9,000 for ten residencies for women writers and filmmakers from Kentucky .
The Kentucky Women Writers Conference ( Lexington): $12,000 for its 1997 conference.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts ( Sweet Briar, VA): $7,000 for residencies for women writers from Kentucky .
KFW Grantees for 1996
Philis Alvic ( Lexington): $3,000 for a new body of weaving work.
Debra Clem ( Louisville): $5,000 to continue work as a painter.
Erin Delaney ( Louisville): $3,000 further study in dance
Laura Lee Duncan-O’Connell, Pat Peak , and Nana Yaa Asantewaa ( Elliottville): $3,000 to create a performance/exhibit, She Feeds the World.
Naneki Elliott and Norma Cole ( Monticello): $3,000 for theater workshop readings of the play Easy Money.
Martha Enzmann ( Morehead): $3,000 to continue work as a sculptor.
Gaela Erwin ( Louisville): $5,000 to create an exhibition catalogue.
Bev Futrell, Karen L. Jones, and Miriam Davidson ( Lexington): $5,000 to record the music of their band, Tall Dark & Handsome.
Gabrielle Gray ( Somerset): $5,000 to compose music inspired by farming women in Kentucky .
Pamela Gray ( Farmington): $5,000 for a series of dance/theater solo performances.
Barbara Hanger ( Louisville): $3,000 to make and exhibit series of drawings.
Meg Higgins and Diane Heilenman ( Louisville): $1,000 for a garden design project.
Marjory Irvin( Danville): $5,000 for performances of her musical, Time Remembered.
Robin Jones ( Lexington): $3,000 produce and exhibit new series of work on paper.
Tamala Junes ( Louisville): $3,000 to continue her work as a singer and songwriter.
Elizabeth Kirkwood ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her in her sculpture work.
Kate Larken ( Louisville): $15,000 for a series of performing arts events produced by women in Kentucky .
Rhea Lehman ( Lexington): $15,000 to produce a series of works by Kentucky women writers/performers.
Sharon Howerton Leightty and Susan Moffett ( Louisville): $3,000 for a retreat for women artists in Kentucky .
Nada Loutfi ( Louisville): $3,000 to continue work as classical concert pianist.
Laura Makowski ( Lexington): $3,000 to continue her work as a sculptor.
Collis Caroline Marshall ( Louisville): $1,000 encourage work with bead tapestries.
Beth McNeill ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her work in choreography.
Leigh Melander ( Covington): $3,000 to record her original harp and vocal music.
Alice Noel ( Bowling Green): $3,000 to continue her work as a visual artist.
Leeanne Schmidt ( Ft. Thomas): $3,000 to continue her work in photography.
Jennifer Shircliff ( Louisville): $3,000 to continue her work as a painter.
Celia Smith ( Louisville): $3,000 to continue her work as sculptor.
Shiela Steinman Wallace ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her work in composition.
Louanne Watley ( Danville): $3,000 for a series of photographs of women in Kentucky .
Dawn Yates ( Louisville): $5,000 to continue her work as a sculptor
Ars Femina ( Louisville): $5,000 for a tour and record production.
Contented Heart Quilt Guild ( Monticello): $2,000 for a quilt show.
David Appalachian Crafts ( David): $3,000 for marketing workshops for women.
Franklin-Simpson Middle School Girls Chorus ( Franklin): $3,000 for uniforms and state-wide tour.
Mary Anderson Center ( Mount St. Francis , IN): $5,000 for residencies for women visual artists from Kentucky .
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts ( Sweet Briar, VA): $5,000 for residencies for Kentucky women visual artists.
KFW Grantees for 1995
Kate Adamek ( Louisville): $4,800 to provide writing experiences to women in homeless shelters.
Bettye Albin ( Morehead): $1,428 for research on women writers in Kentucky at the turn of the century.
Philis Alvic ( Lexington): $4,000 to support research on early weavers of Appalachia .
Michelle Boisseau ( Morehead): $1,000 to support her poetry writing.
Judy Cato ( Louisville): $3,800 to complete a biography of Jemima Wilkinson.
Louise Davis ( Jenkins): $5,000 to continue writing poetry.
Terri Ford ( Covington): $1,700 to attend a writers’ colony.
Tamar Heller ( Louisville): $4,000 for work on a book, Sexual Fictions: Sensational Narrative and the Construction of Female Sexuality in Late Victorian Culture.
Mary Jefferson ( Louisville): $2,000 to encourage her in writing poetry and fiction.
Anna Johnson-Webb ( LaCenter): $3,200 to research and write a performance piece.
D. Cameron Lawrence ( Louisville): $5,000 series of audio art pieces profiling women environmentalists for public radio broadcast.
Elizabeth MacNabb( New Albany , IN): $5,000 to write three scholarly articles and to edit an anthology of essays in women’s studies.
Pamela McMichael ( Prospect): $2,000 to begin work on a performance piece about grief.
Karen Mendez-Smith ( Lexington): $2,000 to continue her work as a poet.
Kimberly Miller ( Lexington): $1,150 to write essays and poems on experiences of women as midwives and mothers.
Sena Naslund ( Louisville): $2,600 to work on a novel, Ahab’s Wife.
Ann Neelon ( Murray): $1,000 to continue writing poetry.
Ann Olson ( Olive Hill): $2,000 to encourage her in several writing projects.
Amelia Blossom Pegram ( Fort Knox): $6,000 to research and write a book of fiction set in the South African slave era.
Delia Pergande ( Lexington): $2,180 for research on book, Humanitarian Politics: American Nongovernmental Organizations in Vietnam , 1954-65 .
Deborah Perkins ( Newport): $2,398 to purchase a computer and printer for use in her writing.
Barbara Polk ( Louisville): $2,000 to support her writing of a screenplay.
Margaret Risk ( Cincinnati , OH): $5,000 to complete a collection of short stories.
Susan Rowland ( Louisville): $4,000 to write a performance piece entitled, Doctored.
Saundra Schatz ( Olive Hill): $5,000 to work on an oral history of grassroots women living in Appalachia .
Valerie Smith ( Louisville): $4,000 to continue work on a new play.
Barbara Stallard ( Louisville): $2,000 to continue writing poetry.
Sharon Thomson ( Loveland , OH): $4,000 to work on a script for a poetry ritual theater piece.
Kaylynn TwoTrees ( Covington): $2,000 to support her work on a video, Basket of Secrets.
Julia Watts ( Williamsburg): $2,000 to encourage her in writing fiction.
Cia White ( Louisville): $3,990 to continue work on a novel.
Isabelle White ( Richmond): $5,000 to continue a research project on fugitive slave, Margaret Garner.
Crystal Wilkinson ( Lexington): $2,000 to complete a collection of short stories.
Kathie Williams ( Lexington): $5,000 to process and catalog material from Lesbian Feminist Union for use by historians.
Justine Richardson ( Whitesburg): $6,000 for a documentary about girls’ basketball in Kentucky .
Mimi Pickering ( Whitesburg): $2,000 to support her video documentary work.
Mary Anderson Center ( Mount St. Francis , IN): $7,900 for ten residencies for Kentucky women writers.
Roadside Theater ( Whitesburg): $5,000 to fund the writing of a new play by Rema Keen.
The Advocado Press ( Louisville): $5,854 special issue “A Celebration of Disability Culture”
The Kentucky Women Writers Conference ( Lexington): $5,000 for their 1995 conference.
