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.

WASHINGTON

33 Fainting Spells
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the creation of Dirty Work. The project will encompass both movement research and 16mm filmmaking.

911 Media Arts Center (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the biannual National Alliance of Media Arts Centers' conference. Scheduled for fall of 2002, the event will explore innovations and trends in the media arts field.

911 Media Arts Center
Seattle, WA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Artists-in-Residence Program. Through equipment access and technical support, the program nurtures emerging and established artists in the creative use of new technologies.

A Contemporary Theatre, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a play. Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill will be directed by Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein.

A Contemporary Theatre, Inc. (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the production of the musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To The Forum, by Stephen Sondheim. A Contemporary Theatre and the 5th Avenue Theatre will produce the show as part of a collaborative effort to produce the entire Sondheim canon over the next decade.

Artist Trust
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the maintenance and expansion the Information Services program. The project will provide professional development information and resources to the artists of Washington State.

Bellevue Art Museum
Bellevue, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary Chicano painter Alfredo Arreguin, with accompanying bilingual catalogue, education programs and a residency. This will be the first retrospective of the Arreguin's work, covering the last 30 years.

Carter Family Puppet Theater
Seattle, WA
$11,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of The Burning House, a multidisciplinary theater production using classical style marionettes, baroque music and opera singers. The company will work from a lost score created by Franz Joseph Haydn for the Royal Marionette Theater of Prince Esterhazy.

Centrum Foundation
Port Townsend, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the expansion of Centrum's residency program. Through this project, Centrum will convert its current print center to non-toxic materials, host an international residency with Mexican and Latino artists, and develop a theater residency program.

Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of books of poetry by emerging and established poets, and books in translation. Promotional author readings will be scheduled throughout the country at bookstores, libraries and literary conferences.

Jack Straw Productions
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support audio art residencies for the creation and presentation of new work. The program will make Jack Straw studios and facilities available to Northwest artists from a variety of disciplines.

Northwest Asian American Theatre
Seattle, WA
$9,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the final residency of the International Artists Program. This project will focus on the creation of a collaborative multimedia sound and movement theater work by Byron Au Yong and Lee Swee Keong.

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Weekend Rarities, a curated film exhibition series. The project will present director retrospectives and thematic programming.

Northwest Folklife Festival
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support East Meets West: Cultural Conservation in the Atlantic Northeast and the Pacific Northwest. Curatorial teams of tradition bearers and folklorists from each region will help determine programming for the 2002 Northwest Festival focusing on conservation of language, natural resources and place.

On the Boards
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support The New Performance Series & Northwest New Works Festival. The project will include the premiere of cross-discipline work and will support residencies for artists.

One Reel
Seattle, WA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 1 Reel Film Festival. Dedicated to showcasing the works of contemporary American filmmakers who work in short format, the event takes place during the annual Bumbershoot Seattle Arts Festival.

Paola, Suzanne
Bellingham, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.

Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Long Steps Never Broke a Back: Art from Africa in America, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will draw primarily from the museum's permanent collection, while collaborations with advisors, African artists and community organizations will shape installations and interpretations of the artwork.

Seattle Baroque Orchestra
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of rarely heard works of the 17th and 18th centuries performed on period instruments. The three concerts will take place in the new Kirkland Performance Center in Kirkland, WA in 2002.

Seattle Children's Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of Tibet Through the Red Box, based on the Caldecott Honor Book by Peter Sís, in an adaptation by playwright David Henry Hwang. The play will be given a workshop and reading as part of the development process, and the world premiere production will be accompanied by a comprehensive curriculum supplement.

Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the world premiere production of a musical theater work. Gabriel Barre will direct Temple, a piece by poet Silvia Peto and composer Norman Durkee based on the life of an autistic woman, Dr. Temple Grandin.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Seattle, WA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support American Music Beyond Borders, a series of concerts, commissions and other activities that will culminate in Viva la Musica: Music of the Americas. The festival features the music of South, Central, and North America. Performances and educational activities will occur throughout the 2002-03 season.

Small, Catherine
Kirkland, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.

Tacoma Opera Association
Tacoma, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Verdi's La Traviata. Asian American designer Carey Wong will design and supervise the construction of scenic elements of the opera.

Unidentified Moving Objects, Inc.
Vashon, WA
$7,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of a new work. Collaborating with playwright Adam Rapp, Unidentified Moving Objects will interview professionals who work with perpetrators of violence and combine this content with research on the human impulse for violence.

Village Theatre
Issaquah, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support Village Originals Series, a musical theater development program. Three new musicals will each receive three weeks of development and three readings.

Total Dollars Awarded: $624,500
Total Grants Awarded: 26

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