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.

PENNSYLVANIA

American Poetry Review
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support authors' fees and promotional costs for issues of The American Poetry Review. The tabloid will seek to increase its current circulation of 20,000 through a targeted direct mail campaign to more than 240,000 prospective readers.

Arden Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation, development and production of new American theater works. Arden Theatre Company commits its resources to the unique costs of play development and support to emerging artists in The Independence Foundation New Play Showcase.

Berks Filmmakers, Inc.
Reading, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the exhibition of several curated film and video series. Programs will include presentations by filmmakers, avant-garde cinema, documentary and animation work, and screenings of films by artists from the region.

Brandywine Graphic Workshop, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a series of artists' residencies in printmaking and presentation of an exhibition by women printmakers. The exhibition will feature the work of under-recognized women artists of color working in printmaking.

Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz
Harrisburg, PA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an annual jazz festival and related activities. Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz will present concerts, a riverboat jazz cruise, and several "jazzwalks" in the city of Harrisburg.

Chatham Baroque, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support a program of Spanish baroque music and dance. The project will be performed in collaboration with two dancers, a harpist and a percussionist.

Creative Nonfiction Foundation
Pittsburgh, PA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of an issue of Creative Nonfiction. In addition to author readings, special mailings, and advertisements on its Web site, the journal will promote its issues by binding a subscription card into Poets and Writers magazine.

Fabric Workshop and Museum
Philadelphia, PA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Fabric Workshop Museum's artist-in-residence program. The program provides a workshop for experimentation by contemporary artists who may or may not have considered fabric as a part of their work.

Gettysburg College (on behalf of Gettysburg Review)
Gettysburg, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support an increase in payments to contributors and promotional expenses for the Gettysburg Review. A direct mail campaign on behalf of the literary journal will target 50,000 potential readers across the country.

Headlong Dance Theater
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work. Sound Sources will be created by Headlong Dance Theater's three artistic directors in collaboration with sound designer and composer Rick Henderson.

Lafayette College
Easton, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances and a jazz ensemble residency at Lafayette College. The Lafayette Jazz: A Decade Marked project will feature jazz artists Randy Weston, Sonny Rollins, Uri Caine, Tom Harrell, Mulgrew Miller and Orrin Evans.

Marlboro School of Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Invited Master Artist Project. This multifaceted summer project will provide young musicians with enhanced experiences and study with master concert artists.

Mulligan-Webb, Sheila
Gettysburg, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.

Mum Puppettheatre, Ltd.
Philadelphia, PA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation, development and presentation of a new play. The company will present a new theater work by Robert Smythe incorporating Vietnamese water puppetry.

Network for New Music
Philadelphia, PA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support commissions and performances of new musical works. The Network for New Music Ensemble will premiere works by Jan Krzywicki, Chen Yi and Richard Wernick in different sites around the greater Philadelphia region.

New Freedom Theatre, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and presentation of a new theater work. The production of Lazarus Unstoned will be written and directed by Artistic Director Walter Dallas.

Painted Bride Art Center (on behalf of Spoken Hand)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support Flammable Contents: ZH/RH/SH. This project will bring together composer Zakir Hussain, hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris, and Spoken Hand (a 15-member handing drumming orchestra) to create and perform a new work.

Painted Bride Art Center
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support Asiatopia, a month-long festival celebrating the art of Asian Americans. The event will include visual art, dance, and music components and educational residencies.

Pennsylvania Ballet Association
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support presentation of a regional tour of Coppelia. The company will present five performances in Harrisburg, PA and Erie, PA.

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a vocal music presenting project. During 2002-03, a series of performances of art songs, cabaret songs, vocal chamber music and choral concerts will be presented.

Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 6th annual Philadelphia Fringe Festival. The project involves contemporary performing arts events presented over a 16-day period.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition of the work of American artist Barnett Newman. The exhibition is being organized in association with the Tate Gallery, London.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association
Philadelphia, PA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the performance of Every Good Boy Deserves A Favor, a play for actors and orchestra by Tom Stoppard with music by André Previn. This production will be a collaboration between the Philadelphia Orchestra and Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia.

Pig Iron Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the reworking and presentation of Cafeteria, an original ensemble-created piece directed by Co-artistic Director Daniel Rothenberg. Cafeteria was first created and performed by the company in 1997, bringing European movement theater techniques to an exploration of American themes, iconic images and archetypal characters.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
Pittsburgh, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new ballet. Choreographed by Kevin O'Day to the music of Sting, this production will be part of Pittsburgh Ballet's program of new ballets, Brand New Day.

Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$6,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of the complete string quartets of Beethoven, including outreach activities. Five performances by the Orion String Quartet are scheduled in April 2002 in the historic Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh Dance Alloy
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of four new works by a variety of artists. The project will feature collaborations with choreographers, composers, videographers and singers.

Pittsburgh Dance Council, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of six companies. The companies include The Shaolin Warriors, Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, Compagnie Maguy Marin, The Parsons Dance Company, and Pittsburgh companies Labco and Attack Theatre.

Pittsburgh Film Makers, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support an experimental film forum during the annual Three Rivers Film Festival. The initiative will enable experimental filmmakers to share their work and ideas with each other and the audience.

Pittsburgh Opera, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the regional premieres of an early Baroque opera L'Incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi and a 20th-century American opera Street Scene by Kurt Weill. L'Incoronazione di Poppea will be performed by the young artists in the professional training arm of the opera, while Street Scene will be the first main stage production sung in English in Pittsburgh in more than 25 years.

Pittsburgh Symphony Society
Pittsburgh, PA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Relations series. During 2002, four premieres of contemporary works, expressly written for the musicians who will perform them, will be preceded and followed by discussions with the composer and musicians.

Prince Music Theater (American Music Theater Festival, Inc.)
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support The Greenhouse Project, a developmental program designed to support new work in musical theater. American Music Theater Festival will provide readings, workshops and dramaturgical, musical and production support for creators of new work.

Rennie Harris Puremovement
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. Facing Mecca, created by Artistic Director Rennie Harris, will feature a cast of 17 dancers, three DJ's, live percussion, and a recorded sound score with vocals by Philip Hamilton, Grisha Coleman and Kenny Muhammad.

Scribe Video Center, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Scribe's workshop program. Classes assist independent artists, community organizations and the interested novice in understanding the language and craft of storytelling through film and electronic media technology.

Sherrill, Kenneth Steven
Altoona, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.
Squonk Opera, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the development and national tour of Hell, a multimedia music theater work. The production will combine projected movies, installations, live music and puppetry.

Taller Puertorriqueno, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an exhibition and commissioning project featuring installations by artists that address the notion of finding sanctuary and solace within urban blight. Artists will create site specific installations throughout Northeast Philadelphia, including the neighborhoods of Norris Square, Kensington and West Kensington.

University of Pennsylvania, Trustees of
(on behalf of Institute of Contemporary Art)
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a group show of architectural projects that examines complex techniques from architecture that bring together diverse fine and applied art practices. The exhibition will present work by emerging designers that is conceived and produced with computers and inspired by technological developments such as genetic engineering.

Wilma Theater
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a play. The company will present Indian Ink by Tom Stoppard.

Wood Turning Center
Philadelphia, PA
$11,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an international summer residency program for wood turning. The center sponsors a program that brings together professional lathe turners, furniture makers, scholars and photographers, allowing them to interact with each other for eight weeks.

Total Dollars Awarded: $902,000
Total Grants Awarded: 40

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