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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.

OHIO

Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
Cleveland Hts., OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$12,500
To support the presentation, educational activities and national radio broadcast of the Saint Matthew's Passion by Bach, on period instruments. Under the direction of conductor Jeannette Sorrel, the two performances will be sung in English and will take place in March 2003 in Akron and at Severance Hall in Cleveland.

BalletMet Columbus (Ballet Metropolitan, Inc.)
Columbus, OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the commission of a world premiere. Australian choreographer Stanton Welch will create Don Quixote for BalletMet's 25th anniversary.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Cincinnati, OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$25,000
To support a production of the winner of the 2002-03 Rosenthal New Play Prize. The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Carson Kreitzer will receive developmental workshops and readings in preparation for a full production.

Cleveland International Film Festival, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support the 27th annual Cleveland International Film Festival, including the sixth annual Midwest Independent Filmmakers Conference. The event presents current work from around the world and complements it with educational programs to increase the audience's understanding of, and appreciation for, the art form.

Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$70,000
To support the touring exhibition Gaudi to Dali: Barcelona and Modernity, 1868-1939, with accompanying catalog.

Cleveland Orchestra
Cleveland, OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$90,000
To support a performance project titled A Sound Beginning. The project will introduce new works to the Cleveland Orchestra's repertoire and celebrate the new leadership of music director Franz Welser Most.

Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$20,000
To support the research and development of The Great Divide (working title). The middle phase of this three-year project will include the formation of the artistic team.

Columbus Symphony Orchestra
Columbus, OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$15,000
To support the Contemporary Music Festival. In a consortium with Ohio State University, the performances by the Columbus Symphony Orchestra will include student and faculty ensembles, local artists and music scholars.

Contemporary Arts Center
Cincinnati, OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$35,000
To support the Center's inaugural exhibition in its new space in spring 2003.

Contemporary Dance Theater, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the presentation of artists. Local and national artists will be presented along with residency activities in the Guest Artist Series.

Cuyahoga Community College
Cleveland, OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$20,000
To support the 24rd annual Tri-C JazzFest. The 2003 festival will focus on the impact that electronics, rock, hip-hop, fusion and the guitar have had on jazz through concerts, educational activities and radio broadcasts.

DANCECleveland (Cleveland Modern Dance Association)
Cleveland, OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$15,000
To support presentations and extended educational residencies. Artists to be presented include Doug Varone & Dancers, Pilobolus Dance Theater, Gina Gibney Dance, Creach/Company, Twyla Tharp Dance and Garth Fagan Dance.

Dayton Contemporary
Dayton, OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$35,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work will be a collaboration between choreographer Ronald K. Brown and jazz musician/composer Mulgrew Miller, and will premiere with Miller's jazz ensemble.

Kent State University Main Campus
Kent, OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support faculty artists' fees for professional development of advanced music students at the Kent/Blossom Music program. A total of 44 nationally-selected, post-secondary music students will spend six summer weeks under the instruction of Cleveland Orchestra musicians, the Miro Quartet and other artists.

Kent State University Main Campus
Kent, OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$20,000
To support a design charrette to generate concepts for Cleveland's Lake Erie waterfront. The charrette will stimulate public discussion about the lakefront site and opportunities for its redevelopment.

Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$58,000
To support the stabilization and treatment of The James Thurber Collection. The collection of manuscripts, published works, letters and other materials are threatened by the acidic nature of the papers used by Thurber, a notable 20th-century humorist.

Ohio University Main Campus (on behalf of Athens International Film Festival)
Athens, OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support the 30th Athens International Film and Video Festival. The event features narrative work, documentaries and short films produced in the United States and abroad.

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, Inc.
Columbus, OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a commission of a new work by composer Michael Daugherty. The ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of music director Timothy Russell, will premiere the work as part of its 25th-anniversary celebration.

Szporluk, Larissa
Bowling Green, OH
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

Townsend, Ann
Granville, OH
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

Wexner Center for the Arts
Columbus, OH
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$75,000
To support the commissioning of visual, performing and media art works. The project is a part of the Wexner Center for the Arts' ongoing artists residency program that provides support for the creation, completion and/or presentation of art.

Total Dollars Awarded: $605,500
Total Grants Awarded: 21


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