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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.

CONNECTICUT

Artspace, Inc.
New Haven, CT
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$23,000
To support Factory Direct: New Haven, a residency program that enables artists to work directly with manufacturers, industries, and businesses. Artists will be in residence at the companies for two-or three-weeks. An exhibition and catalogue will be produced to document their experiences.

Aston Magna Foundation for Music
Danbury, CT
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the Aston Magna Festival. The 32nd annual festival will feature period-instrument performances in the summer of 2004 at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and in Great Barrington, MA.

Connecticut Classical Guitar Society, Inc.
Hartford, CT
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support classical guitar performances and master classes. Four concerts by international artists will take place at the Belding Theater in Hartford.

Curbstone Press, Inc.
Willimantic, CT
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$45,000
To support the translation, publication, and promotion of contemporary, multicultural poetry and fiction. Curbstone Press will sponsor readings in bookstores, libraries, schools, and communities with large minority populations.

Dance Connecticut, Inc.
Hartford, CT
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support residency activities and the presentation of diverse dance companies. Companies to be presented in the series Hartford's Dancing at The Busnell, will include Reggie Wilson Fist and Heel Company, Maria Pages Compania, and Urban Tap.

Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Inc.
Waterford, CT
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$40,000
To support the O'Neill Playwrights Conference and the O'Neill Music Theater Conference. These annual events offer playwrights, composers, and librettists opportunities for the development of new work.

Goodspeed Opera House Foundation, Inc.
East Haddam, CT
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$40,000
To support the development and world premiere of a new musical. King Kong, a new musical work by Robert Lindsey Nassif and Peter Ullian based on the classic 1933 film, will be produced at Goodspeed Opera House's developmental stage, the Norma Terris Theatre.

Hartford Stage Company, Inc.
Hartford, CT
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$35,000
To support a new production of American playwright Edward Albee's first play and the world premiere of his latest piece. The Zoo Story (1959) and Home Life will be produced as a double bill at Hartford Stage Company to celebrate the theater's 40th anniversary season.

Hill-Stead Museum
Farmington, CT
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, featuring summer readings and workshops. Proposed poets include Martha Collins, Joan Joffe Hall, Grace Paley, Rafael Campo, and Major Jackson.

Long Wharf Theatre (Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc.)
New Haven, CT
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$38,000
To support the world premiere production of Fran's Bed, written and directed by Tony Award-winner James Lapine. Acclaimed actress and author Mia Farrow will perform the title role.

Lyme Historical Society (on behalf of Florence Griswold Museum)
Old Lyme, CT
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Save America's Treasures
$150,000
To support the conservation and preservation of the Lyme Art Colony Collection. This collection consists of door and wall paintings from the Griswold House, which was the center of American Impressionism during the early 20th Century.

Pilobolus, Inc.
Washington Depot, CT
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. Titled MEGA WHAT, the work will be choreographed by the company's artistic directors and premiere at the Ruth Eckerd Theater in Clearwater, FL.

Real Art Ways, Inc.
Hartford, CT
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$23,000
To support an exhibition series featuring the work of emerging artists in New York state and New England. A jury of artists and curators will select the recipients of the solo exhibitions.

Yale University (on behalf of Oral History, American Music)
New Haven, CT
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Save America's Treasures
$148,000
To support the preservation of Oral History, American Music's archive of major figures in American music. The focus of this conservation effort will center on the conversion of materials in the collection to archival formats.

Yale University (on behalf of Yale Repertory Theatre)
New Haven, CT
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$45,000
To support the production of Shakespeare's King Lear. Harold Scott will direct the play with acclaimed actor Avery Brooks in the title role.

Connecticut Total Dollars Awarded: $637,000
Connecticut Total Grants Awarded: 15


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