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Jay Sullivan What is The Boomerang Fund for Artists? The Boomerang Fund for Artists is a not-for-profit organization that raises money for artists and arts organizations of all genres. Direct mail solicitation is the primary form of fundraising, although occasionally Boomerang will hold concerts to benefit the Fund. How does Boomerang select its grant recipients? Artists and organizations do not apply for grants. Boomerang is too small an organization to devote its limited resources to reviewing grant applications. Instead, Boomerang's Board of Directors selects grant recipients with the assistance of Boomerang's Board of Advisors. The criteria for evaluating potential grant recipients is quite flexible. Recipients may be new artists who have shown extraordinary talent; seasoned professionals who have lived a life in the arts but may not have achieved financial security; arts organizations that need a boost for a particular project; the possibilities are myriad. Grants are awarded with no strings attached, and usually range between $300 and $3,000. Members of the Advisory Board include: - Mary-Louise Parker (Emmy, Tony and Golden Globe Award winning actress) - Gen Horiuchi (Artistic Director, Saint Louis Ballet, former principal dancer with New York City Ballet, and former member of the Broadway casts of "Cats" and "Song & Dance") - Forrest Gander (author, editor, and Professor of English and Comparative Literatures and Director of the Graduate Program in Literary Arts at Brown University) - C.D. Wright (MacArthur Foundation Fellow and celebrated poet) - Darla Hoover (Repetiteur, the Balanchine Trust, Associate Artistic Director, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet) - Charles Randolph-Wright (playwright - "Blue", director - 75th anniversary of "Porgy and Bess", director - "Lincoln Heights", writer/director - "Mama I Want To Sing") - Christopher D'Amboise (choreographer, former principal dancer with New York City Ballet, and former Artistic Director of the Pennsylvania Ballet Company) - Jeff Edwards (Associate Director, Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company) - Anne Pasternak (Artistic Director, Creative Time, Inc.) - Tim Guinee (Actor) Are contributions tax deductible? Yes. The Boomerang Fund is a 501(c)(3) organization (Fed. Tax ID No. 04-3760294), so all contributions are fully tax deductible. Because Boomerang has no overhead expenses, 100% of every contribution goes directly to grant recipients. Grant Recipients Dafnis Prieto, jazz drummer, percussionist and composer Liz Waldner, writer Candace Bouchard, dancer (Oregon Ballet Theatre) Configuration, dance company (Catherine Batcheller and Joseph Cipolla, Directors) Nicole Lowrance, actor Graham Michael Hamilton, actor Psalmayene 24, actor/playwright Yazmany Arboleda, visual artist Steve Allen, saxophonist Kanji Segawa, dancer Nicolas Kendall, violinist Oni Faida Lampley, playwright/actress Martin Espada, poet Adrian Belic, filmmaker Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance, contemporary ballet company The Women's Project, theater production company Brenda Shaughnessy & Craig Teicher, poets Charles-Louis Yoshiyama, ballet dancer Alexander Strain, actor America's Dream Chamber Artists, chamber music ensemble Geoffrey Gatza, poet WordBRIDGE, playwriting laboratory Carl Flink and Black Label Movement, choreographer, dance ensemble Christine Toy Johnson, actress and playwright Colin Tribby, percussionist and teaching artist Karl Miller, actor Harun Mehmedinovic, filmmaker Barbara Barg, poet and musician Margo Hall, actor, director and playwright Catherine Russell, vocalist Ensemble Studio Theatre, theatre company Courtney Lavine, ballet dancer Jo Kreiter, Artistic Director, Flyaway Productions Jeremy Skidmore, director Dan Stroeh, writer (Carpe Diem Award recipient) Darren Canady, playwright Jonathan Jordan, ballet dancer Jay Sullivan, actor Holly Twyford, actor Sharon Hayes, visual artist Gretchen and John Morning, filmmakers John Manzari, dancer/singer/actor Leo Manzari, dancer/singer/actor Genine Lentine, writer Caledonia Curry (a.k.a. Swoon), visual artist The Barrow Group, theatre production company Julio Bragado-Young, ballet dancer (Carpe Diem Award recipient) Nancy Kuhl, writer Dean Young, writer Daniel Karslake, filmmaker Jessica Frances Dukes, actor Erin Weaver, actor Jennifer Mendenhall, actor Mel Chin, visual artist Jeffrey Cirio, dancer Brian Reeder, choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo, choreographer and dancer Grace Pettis, singer/songwriter/guitarist Robert Ransick, visual artist Kate Rouzer, ballet dancer Jeremy Gumbs, singer/actor/dancer Nanna Ingvarsson, actor