May 31, 2007

Ten Bay Area Artists Awarded Grants for New Works

(SAN FRANCISCO) – Thursday, May 31, 2007– Sandra R. Hernández, M.D., CEO, and Tatwina Lee, Chair of the Board of Trustees of The San Francisco Foundation (TSFF), are pleased to announce the matching grant awards to ten Bay Area artists for new works. Grants up to $5,000 were granted to support the commissioning of new works by Bay Area artists, with matching contributions to individual artists from private donors.

The local artists, carefully selected from a pool of seventy-three applicants, are affiliated with arts organizations in San Francisco and San Mateo counties with budgets under $2 million dollars. The 2006 -2007 matching commission grants were awarded to the following artists:

•    Chitresh Das, Chitresh Das Dance Company
•    Eva Tam, Door Dog Music Productions
•    Taraneh Hemami with Intersection for the Arts
•    Donna Keiko Ozawa, Christine Wong Yap, and Bob Hsiang, Kearny Street Workshop
•    Alan Chan, Eric Myers, Dawei Wang, and Bik Lee, Melody of China
•    Gyan Riley with Musical Traditions, Inc.
•    Patrick Makuakāne, Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu
•    Julio Cesar Morales, New Langton Arts
•    Robert Moses, Robert Moses’ Kin
•    Meklit Hadero, Prasant Radhakrishnan, Sameer Gupta, Eliyahu Sills, Gabriel Teodros, and Todd Brown, The Red Poppy Art House


The San Francisco Foundation is the community foundation serving the Bay Area since 1948 with current assets of more than $970 million. Through the generosity and vision of our donors, TSFF awarded grants totaling $68 million in fiscal year 2006. Bringing together donors and building on community assets through grantmaking, leveraging, public policy, advocacy, and leadership development, TSFF addresses community needs in the areas of community health, education, arts and culture, community development, and the environment. The San Francisco Foundation is a community foundation serving San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, and San Mateo Counties.