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.

NEBRASKA

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Omaha, NE
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$40,000
To support residencies for artists to create new work. Participating artists will be provided with housing, workspace, technical assistance and a monthly stipend for three- to six-month periods.

Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater, Inc.
Lincoln, NE
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support the Great Plains Film Festival. The festival provides a showcase for film and video artists working in the American heartland.

University of Nebraska Press (University of Nebraska at Lincoln)
Lincoln, NE
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$50,000
To support the publication and distribution of literary work in translation. The press will publish anthologies of new French-African short stories, Islandic literature and contemporary Jewish writing from Sweden and Brazil.

Total Dollars Awarded: $100,000
Total Grants Awarded: 3

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506