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.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

African Continuum Theatre Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$15,000
To support the premiere production of a new musical. Playwright and artistic director Jennifer L. Nelson and composer Mel Nelson have written a hybrid work entitled Hubert & Charlie that combines blues and klezmer music.

Arena Stage (Washington Drama Society, Inc.)
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$40,000
To support the production of a classic play. Bertolt Brecht's early satire about war, entitled A Man's a Man, will be produced in Arena Stage's theater-in-the-round.

Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Inc.
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$75,000
To support Next Steps, a professional development program. The project is designed to give mid career artists with a history of touring, but under-developed managerial and administrative infrastructure, the tools to develop projects with presenters; as well as give presenters, artists' managers, and agents skills in building partnerships with artists and other partners.

Choral Arts Society of Washington (consortium)
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$25,000
To support a co-commission of a new work for chorus and orchestra by Native American composer Brent Michael Davids, with related composer residency activities. The work will celebrate the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington, DC.

Chorus America (consortium)
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$50,000
To support services and technical assistance to the choral field through an annual conference, publications, and leadership development forums for conductors, board members, and managers. The project will benefit approximately 1,400 chorus members.

Chorus America
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support choral conducting workshops for professional conductors. Chorus America and Northwestern University will offer a workshop on orchestral conducting in New York City and a workshop for children's choir conductors in Evanston, IL.

Dance Place (D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc.)
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$25,000
To support performances and residencies by dancers. The artists will represent a wide spectrum of traditions and styles, including African, jazz, tap, step, hip-hop, and modern.

Dance/USA
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$100,000
To support professional development services. The project will include the Winter 2004 Council Meeting, the Biennial Roundtable 2004, Dance/USA on Tour 2005 planning, and Web site development.

Folger Shakespeare Library (Trustees of Amherst College)
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support the world premiere production of Melissa Arctic by Pulitzer-nominated playwright Craig Wright. Aaron Posner, co-founder of Philadelphia's Arden Theatre, will direct.

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$55,000
To support a festival of new productions of five Tennessee Williams plays and readings for a retrospective expected to reach an estimated 100,000 patrons. The project will also feature an exhibit on Williams, as well as artist engagements with local schools through the Events for Students program.

National Building Museum
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$44,700
To support an architectural exhibit, symposium, and lectures on a collection of architectural drawings. Envisioning Architecture: Drawings form the Museum of Modern Art has toured in Europe and will appear in no other U.S. venue.

National New Play Network
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support The Continued Life Fund, an initiative that provides production stipends to theaters committed to presenting sequential productions of a new play. The pilot project supported by the fund will be the world premiere of Permanent Collections, by Thomas Gibbons, at InterAct Theatre Company.

National Symphony Orchestra Association
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$65,000
To support Beethoven by Mahler, an exploration of Beethoven's symphonies in score editions that were prepared and edited by Gustav Mahler. Concerts will take place at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and are scheduled for a subsequent East Coast tour through North Carolina and Florida, culminating in a performance at Carnegie Hall.

Opera America, Inc.
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$100,000
To support information service print publications and online databases. Nine print and online resources provide pertinent artistic, financial and programmatic information to the organization's 117 company members and individual singer membership.

Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$80,000
To support the exhibition Calder and Miro, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will bring new insights to the mobile sculptures of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and the poem paintings of Joan Miro (1893-1983) by interpreting their friendship as an historical and stylistic exchange.

Shakespeare Theatre
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$55,000
To support productions of William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I and Part II. Produced consecutively within the theater's mainstage season, both plays will be directed by Bill Alexander, honorary associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Society for the Arts in Healthcare
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$15,000
To support a national conference on arts and healing. The conference will offer artists, arts administrators, and medical professionals training, experiential sessions, and presentations on the use of arts in healing environments.

Studio Theatre, Inc.
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$25,000
To support the production of Tennessee Williams' Not About Nightingales. Artistic Director Joy Zinoman will direct the play.

Vocal Arts Society
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$20,000
To support the presentation of solo vocal recitals. Performances will be held in the Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the French Embassy, Strathmore Hall, and at University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts.

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Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$30,000
To support the ArteAmericA series. A consortium with GALA Hispanic Theatre, this project will include performances and residencies celebrating Latino cultures throughout the Americas.