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2004 Grant Awards: State Listings

Creativity/Leadership Initiatives/Literature Fellowships
Services to Arts Organizations & Artists

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

ARIZONA

Arizona Theatre Company
Tucson, AZ
$35,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a guest artist residency with an adaptation of a series of one-act plays into one full-length production for the stage. Actor and clown Geoff Hoyle will conduct classes in farce and clowning and create an evening of farce based on the plays of Georges Feydeau, an early 20th century French master of the genre.

Childsplay, Inc.
Tempe, AZ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$27,000
To support the development, workshops, and public presentation of a new play. Playwright Barry Kornhauser and director Eric Johnson will join artistic director David Saar to create a new work based on Mediterranean mythology and folklore.

Foundation For Creative Broadcasting, Inc. (KXCI) (on behalf of Outright Radio)
Tucson, AZ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support the production of radio programs to be hosted by David Gilmore. Outright Radio will focus on unique people in the gay community.

Tucson Symphony Society
Tucson, AZ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$20,000
To support a commissioning and presentation project celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. Performances of new works by five composers will be presented in Tucson, as well as in Green Valley, Oro Valley, and Ajo, Arizona.

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Visiting Poets and Writers Reading Series at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Proposed artists include Rita Dove, Michael Palmer, Alberto Rios, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Sue Kwock Kim, Calvin Bedient, Patricia Smith, and Gjertrud Schnackenberg.

University of Arizona (on behalf of UA presents)
Tucson, AZ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$20,000
To support the presentation of African dance. Companies to be presented include Sello Pesa (South Africa), Compagnie Rary (Madagascar), and Compagnie Kongo Ba Teria (Burkina Faso).

Arizona Total Dollars Awarded: $127,000
Arizona Total Grants Awarded: 6