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.

LOUISIANA

Arts Council of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
$23,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a master artist residencies series designed to offer professional visual artists the opportunity to work in non-studio settings. The master artists selected for this initial residency are John Scott, Lin Emery and Helen Escobedo.

Clark, George
Lafayette, LA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.

Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Louisiana artist Douglas Bourgeois (b. 1951), with accompanying catalogue. This will be the first mid-career survey of Bourgeois' paintings.

Louisiana State University (on behalf of Louisiana State University Press)
Baton Rouge, LA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support production costs and related expenses for books of poetry. Scheduled titles include Kelly Cherry's Rising Venus, Daniel Hoffman's Darkening Water, and Kathryn Stripling Byer's Catching Light.

National Performance Network, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support 40 dance residencies and related educational and outreach activities in over 21 communities throughout the United States. The National Performance Network offers artists a defined system of fee subsidy in order for them to engage in extended residencies in communities.

New Orleans Ballet Association
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support two dance presentations. Evidence, Inc. and Doug Varone and Dancers will be presented on the concert stage as well as in community settings throughout greater New Orleans.

Praxis, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Praxis, an architectural journal that informs the architectural writer, builder, academic and professional by exploring the balance between theory and practice. Three volumes will be produced focusing on housing, the American landscape, and museums and merchandising.

Xavier University of Louisiana Audubon Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support readers' fees, promotion and related expenses for a reading series targeting African American students and community members. Scheduled participants include E. Ethelbert Miller, Dorianne Laux, Harryette Mullen, Bruce Weigl, Lenard D. Moore, Peggy Shumaker, David Brendan Hopes and Henry Taylor.

Total Dollars Awarded: $208,000
Total Grants Awarded: 8

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
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Washington, DC 20506