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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.

OHIO

Arts Council Lake Erie West
Toledo, OH
$30,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the expansion of the Black Swamp Rural Arts Initiative (BSRAI). Working in partnership with the Ohio Arts Council, BSRAI will develop arts leadership skills in Northwest Ohio rural communities through professional development workshops, peer mentoring and the use of technology.

Cincinnati Ballet Company, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the development of a production to honor the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. The project will include re-staging excerpts from Ballet Russe ballets, commissioning two new one act ballets, and working with the Cincinnati Art Museum to display sketches from the Ballet Russe era.

Cincinnati Opera Association
Cincinnati, OH
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a presentation of the opera Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie with libretto by Terrence McNally. Performed in Cincinnati's Music Hall in the summer of 2002, this will be the first presentation of this new work outside of California.

Cleveland Film Society
Cleveland, OH
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 26th annual Cleveland International Film Festival, including the fifth annual Midwest Independent Filmmakers Conference. Held in the spring, the event presents current work from around the world and complements it with educational programs to increase the audience's understanding of, and appreciation for, the art form.

Cleveland Museum of Art (consortium)
Cleveland, OH
$65,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Magna Grecia: Greek Art from South Italy and Sicily, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Organized with the Tampa Museum of Art in Florida, the exhibition features masterworks that have never before been seen in America.

Cleveland Orchestra (Musical Arts Association)
Cleveland, OH
$75,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances celebrating the 20-year partnership between music director Christoph von Dohnányi and the Cleveland Orchestra. The programming will feature works by Beethoven and Mozart, as well as two world premieres, and include concerts in Boston and New York.

Cleveland Play House
Cleveland, OH
$35,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Next Stage New Play Development Program. The program will include a festival of new plays, the commission of two new works, development and workshop production of Forest City by playwright Bridgette A.Wimberly, and the Playwrights Unit.

Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$22,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation, development and presentation of a new theater work. Blue Sky Transmission: A Tibetan Book of the Dead will be created in collaboration with Theatre Labyrinth of Cleveland.

Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (consortium)
Columbus, OH
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a festival of contemporary music. Columbus Symphony Orchestra and Ohio State University will present a festival of concerts and lecture with composer Krzysztof Penderecki.

Community Media Productions, Inc.
Yellow Springs, OH
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media ArtsTo support post-production costs for a documentary series produced by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert. Intended for national broadcast on PBS, A Lion in the House follows five families whose lives are transformed when each family learns one of their children has cancer.

Contemporary Dance Theater, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of artists. Local and national artists will be presented along with residency activities.

Culture Works
Dayton, OH
$22,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Cultural Assets Program. The Cultural Assets Program is an intensive, long term leadership development and training program for the staff and board of small and emerging arts and cultural organizations in greater Dayton.

Cuyahoga Community College (on behalf of Tri-C JazzFest)
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 23rd annual Tri-C JazzFest. The festival's artists will bridge music of the world through the diversity of jazz compositions in concerts, educational activities and local public radio broadcasts aired on WCPN-FM in Cleveland.

DANCECleveland (Cleveland Modern Dance Association)
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support DANCECleveland's 2001-2002 Series. The program will include five concert presentations, as well as a commissioning project and two extended residencies.

Dayton Contemporary Dance Co. (Dayton Contemporary Dance Guild, Inc.)
Dayton, OH
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of new works by choreographers Bill T. Jones, Garth Fagan, Bebe Miller and Doug Varone. Each of these four new works will explore the theme of flight or aviation in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the first, powered flight.

Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Association
Dayton, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Classical Connections, a series of concerts with an informal format that combines discussion, demonstration and performance. There are three concerts scheduled in 2002 to take place in Memorial Hall in Dayton.

Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Association (consortium)
Dayton, OH
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a creation project celebrating the centennial of air flight and the legacy of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Three orchestras will commission new works from American composers William Bolcom, Michael Schelle and Nathaniel Stookey.

Early Music America, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$25,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Professional Development Program for performers, presenters, educators and those interested in the field of early music. Established in 1991, this program offers seminars and panel discussions on topics designed to enhance skills, provide independence, and strengthen organizational capacities for early music ensembles.

Great Lakes Theater Festival
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of a new theater work. The production Love Langston, written and directed by Loni Berry, will be based on poems and stories by writer Langston Hughes.

Jefferson Academy of Music
Columbus, OH
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation and presentation of a new work for string quartet by composer Donald Harris. The new work will be premiered by the Coolidge Quartet during its residency at Jefferson Academy in April 2003.

Novakovich, Josip A.
Blue Creek, OH
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.

Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a commission of a new work by composer Peter Schickele. The Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra will premiere the work, a clarinet concerto, at the Southern Theatre in Columbus.

Rhythm In Shoes, Inc.
Dayton, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support creation of an evening-length performance. Rhythm in Shoes will collaborate with the musical group the Red Clay Ramblers of Chapel Hill, NC.

Spaces
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support an exhibition that investigates contemporary residential design in a Midwest context. Ten regional architects will exhibit design proposals for an aesthetically provocative, technologically advanced, single-family home that considers the needs and environment of a middle-income family.

Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo, OH
$55,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Prints, Drawings, and Paintings, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This exhibition will present for the first time a full survey of this Dutch artist's work.

Wexner Center Foundation
Columbus, OH
$85,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the commissioning of visual, performing and media art works. This project is a part of the Wexner Center for the Arts' ongoing artists residency program that provides financial, technical and professional support for the creation, completion and/or presentation of art.

Total Dollars Awarded: $739,000
Total Grants Awarded: 26


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