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.

TEXAS

Ancestral Films, Inc.
Houston, TX
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the fourth Houston Pan-Cultural Film Festival. Held biannually, this event will focus on the work of American independent filmmakers and emerging directors from Africa, Asia and Latin America.

ArtLies
Houston, TX
$8,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the reviews section of ArtLies, a quarterly publication that covers the visual arts in Texas. First published in 1993, ArtLies seeks to expand its news coverage and critical dialogue of the visual arts.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the presentation of underrepresented works of cinema spanning more than 100 years of film history. Over 135 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 34,000 people.

Austin Film Society (on behalf of Passage Productions)
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Susanne Mason. Let It Roll: A History of the Texas Penitentiary recounts the inmate-led revolt against prison conditions in Texas during the 1960s and 1970s.

Center for Women & Their Work
Austin, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a series of solo exhibitions for young and emerging women artists of Texas. The exhibitions will be accompanied by catalogues and related educational and outreach activities.

City of El Paso Arts Resources Dept.
El Paso, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the World on a String Guitar Festival, including performances and master classes. Guitarists Paul Galbraith, Berta Rojas, Andrew York, Brian Gore, Peppino D'Agostino and Laurence Juber will perform at the Chamizal National Memorial Theater drawing audiences from New Mexico and Mexico.

Da Camera Society of Texas, Inc.
Houston, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of concerts and related panel discussions focused on combining music with the visual and literary arts. Two productions are planned from December 2002 through March 2003 in celebration of St. Petersburg's 300th anniversary.

Dallas Children's Theater, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$12,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the U.S. premiere of a new theater work, outreach expenses and an artist residency. Deadly Weapons by Laurie Brooks explores contemporary issues of youth violence and abuse.

Dallas Opera
Dallas, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the American premiere of The Silver Tassie, a new opera by British composer Mark Anthony Turnage. Based on a play of the same name by Sean O'Casey, the opera, co commissioned by The Dallas Opera and the English National Opera, had its world premiere in England in February 2000.

Dance Umbrella
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of five dance events in celebration of Dance Umbrella's 25th anniversary. All artists will participate in week-long residencies that will include professional level master classes, participation in meet-the-artist events, lecture demonstrations, and dance workshops in local middle and high schools.

DiverseWorks, Inc.
Houston, TX
$45,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the artist residency program DiverseDialogues and the commissioning and presentation of new works. The project will bring nationally recognized artists to Houston to engage the community in the creation of new work.

FotoFest, Inc.
Houston, TX
$27,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support FotoFest 2002, a biannual photographic festival that includes exhibitions, new media art events, artist portfolio review and a catalogue. FotoFest works with over 80 organizations in the area to present the month-long event that attracts over 220,000 visitors world-wide.

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support phase one of the S.A/L.A. Project, a cultural exchange between artists from West San Antonio and East Los Angeles. In the first year of the project, Los Angeles artists will partner with local artists in San Antonio for a series of presentations and residencies for local youth.

Houston Ballet Foundation
Houston, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of dance works by two choreographers. Australian choreographer Natalie Weir will create a world premiere and the company will perform a piece by Sir Kenneth Macmillian.

Houston Center for Photography
Houston, TX
$24,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a series of exhibitions of mid-career and emerging visual artists. These exhibitions, along with accompanying educational programming, will explore the notion of constructed reality as metaphor, and use photography in innovative ways.

Jones, Stephen
Lubbock, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.

Junebug Productions, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the completion, premiere and tour of Like Poison Ivy. This multimedia play will be rewritten for a premiere in New Orleans and subsequent performances in five additional cities.

Kitchen Dog Theater Company
Dallas, TX
$7,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the fourth annual New Works Festival. The festival will feature the presentation of a new, ensemble-created theater work and staged readings of new theater works.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
$110,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition on the history of Japanese photography, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is being co-organized with the Japan Foundation, Tokyo.

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
San Antonio, TX
$60,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support Building Our Community Culture. This two-part project will consist of a national conference and leadership institute.

Project Row Houses
Houston, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency program to commission artist installations in several shotgun-style row houses. The project will feature the work of photographers, and will coincide with the internationally renowned biennial photography festival FotoFest.

Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support plena music, song and dance workshops. The workshops will be led by NEA National Heritage Fellow Juan Gutierrez and Los Pleneros de la 21, and will culminate in a concert.

Rude Mechanicals-A Theatre Collective
Austin, TX
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of an adaptation of a novel by James Kelman. Director Sarah Richardson and playwright Kirk Lynn will workshop and develop How Late It Was How Late.

Searcy, David
Dallas, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.

Serie Project, Inc.
Austin, TX
$8,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a serigraph printmaking residency program for artists at all stages in their careers. The apprentices will be trained in printing, marketing, promotion and arts administration.

Southwestern Alternate Media Projects, Inc.
Houston, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and statewide distribution of The Territory. As the longest running public television showcase of media art in the United States, the 13-part series presents independent film and video works to over 12 million viewers throughout Texas.

Stages, Inc.
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a new play. The production of Blood Wedding by Frederíco Garcia Lorca will be directed by Rob Bundy.

Texas Folklife Resources (consortium)
Austin, TX
$70,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Community Residency Program. The project will consist of 15 week-long residencies in Texas towns with populations under 10,000.

University of Houston (on behalf of Arte Público Press)
Houston, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support publication and promotion of anthologies of works by Latino authors. Featured authors will read at more than 180 venues nationwide, including libraries, community centers, trade shows, inner-city schools, and alternative schools for at-risk youth.

University of North Texas (on behalf of the Art Gallery)
Denton, TX
$24,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Silkroad to Pophighway project which will involve the creation and installation of work by artist Wenda Gu, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This project, jointly developed between the Art Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art and Kansas City Art Institute, will demonstrate Gu's interpretation of the relationship between China and the West, past and present.

University of Texas at Arlington (on behalf of The Gallery)
Arlington, TX
$16,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Stories Your Mother Never Told You: A Survey of Photography and Text by Celia Alvarez Munoz, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present a 20 year-survey of Munoz's work and will focus on the intersection of the artist's personal memories with her Chicana perspective, addressing concepts of language, culture, race and feminism.

Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 16th Annual Dallas Video Festival. Over a five-day period, the event will present classic work programmed with new video art.

William Marsh Rice University (consortium)
Houston, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a publication to document a panel discussion and site-specific architectural installations that examine the shotgun house within contemporary architectural design and theory. The publication will allow national dissemination of a project that will be unable to travel.

Writers' League of Texas (on behalf of Cinematexas)
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Austin Eye+Ear Performance Series. Through a combination of performances, premieres and a commission, the event will bring contemporary new music and performance art to Austin-area audiences.

Total Dollars Awarded $922,000
Total Grants Awarded 34

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