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2003 Grant Awards: State Listings

Creativity/Organizational Capacity/Literature Fellowships
Leadership Initiatives

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

MASSACHUSETTS

Adaptive Environments Center, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: AccessAbility/Research
$65,000
To support the third phase of Access to Design Professions, a leadership effort to increase the number of, and support for, people with disabilities in design professions.

American Repertory Theatre Company, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$45,000
To support the commissioning, development and production of a new musical theater work. Story In Story Out will be written by composer, musician and performer Rinde Eckert and developed with Artistic Director Robert Woodruff and members of the company.

BFVF (Boston Film Video Foundation, Inc.)
Brighton, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support professional and artistic development opportunities for media artists in the New England region. Through a comprehensive media arts education program, the Boston Film/Video Foundation (BFVF) provides a full range of services to its constituency.

Boston Ballet, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$25,000
To support the presentation of Romeo and Juliet by Dutch choreographer Rudi van Dantzig. The production will be presented at the Wang Theatre and will include a variety of educational outreach programs.

Boston Cyberarts, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$20,000
To support the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Ten events will be developed and produced for the 2003 festival.

Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$20,000
To support the 12th biennial festival featuring the baroque opera Die schoene und getreue Ariadne by Johann Georg Conradi. This will be the first production of the opera since 1691.

Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Inc.
Roslindale, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the American Orchestra Music Initiative in the presentation and recording of works by American composers. Works by John Harbison and Augusta Read Thomas will receive their regional premieres in Boston during 2003 and will be recorded by Albany Records for the first time.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (on behalf of Tanglewood Music Center)
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$50,000
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music. The Tanglewood Music Center will present the week long event featuring five to seven concerts by ensembles of Tanglewood fellows and guest artists.

Bowen, Kevin
Dorchester, MA
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

Brandeis University (on behalf of Rose Art Museum)
Waltham, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$15,000
To support the exhibition Coexistence: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa, with accompanying education programs.

Cape & Islands Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
North Chatham, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the 2003 Cape & Island Chamber Music Festival. The 17 chamber-music concerts and special programs will use the ocean as a programming theme during the three-week August festival held in venues across Cape Cod.

Celebrity Series of Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$25,000
To support the presentation of modern and classical dance companies. The project is a collaboration between Celebrity Series and the Wang Center for the Performing Arts, and will include educational activities.

Double Edge Theatre Productions, Inc.
Ashfield, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the development and presentation of a new theater work. The UnPossessed, an ensemble-created theater work, will be directed by Artistic Director Stacy Klein.

Emmanuel Music, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support Harbison and His World, a retrospective of concerts and lectures on the chamber music of John Harbison. A series of ten concerts, including a world premiere to take place at the Walsh Theater at Suffolk University in Boston, will examine the composer's works and influences on his music.

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc.
Provincetown, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$30,000
To support the Winter Residency Program. The program will provide 20 emerging writers and visual artists with housing, studios and a monthly stipend for a seven-month period.

Handel & Haydn Society
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$27,500
To support Exploring the Italian Baroque, a series of concerts for chorus and orchestra. Three concerts, all under the direction of Music Director Grant Llewellyn, are planned during 2003-04 that will be enhanced by lectures, discussions and articles by Baroque scholars.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$35,000
To support the professional premiere of a new work developed by Darko Tresnjak. The Blue Demon is based on fables and folk tales from Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions.

Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Made in Mexico, with accompanying catalog and education programs. The exhibition will explore the ways in which Mexico City has been a locus for creativity and experimentation for artists and intellectuals in the 20th century.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$60,000
To support the Gardner's artist-in-residence program, with accompanying exhibitions and publications.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Lee, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$70,000
To support the residencies and performances of dance companies. Six artists will be presented during the series Breaking Ground in Context.

Marblehead Historical Society
Marblehead, MA
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$70,000
To conserve a collection of three sets of rare, original 18th-century English wallpapers in and from the 1768 Jeremiah Lee mansion. The proposed conservation work will address the immediate threat of disengagement from the walls, as well as the long-term stability of the entire collection, its supports and its printed designs.

MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc.)
North Adams, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$40,000
To support MASS Manufacturing. Seven new works will be created through this residency and commissioning program.

New England Foundation for the Arts
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: International
$100,000
To support development of educational materials and community outreach programs for the dance touring project, Dance Across Borders, that will present two Mexican dance companies in communities across the United States.

Ploughshares, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$16,000
To support the publication and national circulation of issues of Ploughshares to 6,000 readers across the country. The Winter 2003-04 and Spring 2004 issues will feature new work by 70 poets and 12 fiction writers.

Powell, Douglas
Somerville, MA
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the scoring of New Morning for the World: Daybreak of Freedom by Joseph Schwantner. The work, originally written for narrator and full orchestra in 1982, is a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Puppet Showplace, Inc.
Brookline, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$8,000
To support two artistic initiatives. The Puppets at Night series will present productions for adults including four bi-monthly PuppetSLAMS, and the Puppets at Dorchester series will bring puppetry to underserved youth.

Revolving Museum, Inc.
Lowell, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$26,000
To support the public art series On Track & Off the Beaten Path. The project will unite artists, local organizations and city leaders in a collaborative effort to transform the underutilized train tracks and alleyways of Lowell's historic district.

Shippy, Peter
Jamaica Plain, MA
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

Williams College Museum of Art
Williamstown, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of African-American artist Kara Walker, with accompanying catalog.

Women's Review, Inc.
Wellesley, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support publication costs for two special issues of The Women's Review of Books. The special issues will focus on women and aging.

World Music, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$15,000
To support dance residencies and the presentation of Boston-based dance companies. The project will include performances, master classes, workshops and conversations with Boston choreographers and post-concert sessions.

Wright, Elizabeth Oehlkers
Waltham, MA
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support the translation from German of Zafer Senocak's sixth book of poems, Fernwehanstalten. Raised in Turkey and Germany, Senocak has published seven books of poetry.

The Writers' Room of Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$5,000
To support subsidized workspace for emerging writers using the Writers' Room of Boston. For ach per quarter year, the Writers' Room of Boston provides 40 authors with workspace 24 hours a day.

Yard, Inc.
Chilmark, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$5,000
To support the Bessie Schoenberg Choreographers and Dancers Residency and a Company Residency. Four emerging choreographers and eight dancers will be in residence for five weeks and two dance companies will be in residence for four weeks.

Total Dollars Awarded: $987,500
Total Grants Awarded: 35


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