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2002 Grant Awards: State Listings

Creativity/Organizational Capacity/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

CONNECTICUT

Artspace, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the commissioning of nine temporary, site-specific public artworks from mid-career visual artists for the 5th annual City-Wide Open Studios program in New Haven. This month long event will showcase the work and studios of over 300 local visual artists and will feature exhibitions, educational tours and residencies.

Curbstone Press, Inc.
Willimantic, CT
$60,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation, publication and promotion of contemporary poetry and fiction by writers from Latin America, Vietnam and Algeria. Curbstone Press will sponsor readings by international writers in bookstores, libraries, schools and community centers.

Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center, Inc.
Waterford, CT
$35,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the National Playwrights Conference and the National Music Theater Conference. The programs include the creation and development of new plays and musical theater works.

Goodspeed Opera House Foundation, Inc.
East Haddam, CT
$60,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and re-creation of a rarely produced musical. Goodspeed will create new orchestration for and develop, through readings and studio workshops, The Baker's Wife, by composer Stephen Schwartz and librettist Joseph Stein.

Hartford Stage Company, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$35,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of two one-act plays during the fourth annual Tennessee Williams Marathon. The Gnadiges Fraulein and I Can't Imagine Tomorrow will be directed by David Schweizer.

Pilobolus, Inc.
Washington Depot, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work. Choreographed by Artistic Directors Robby Barnett and Jonathan Wolken, the new work will explore the four humors, with a commissioned score by Peter Schickele.

Total Dollars Awarded: $225,000
Total Grants Awarded: 6


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