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.

FLORIDA

Atlantic Center for the Arts, Inc.
New Smyrna Beach, FL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support the first phase of the Argentina/US Cultural Exchange Residency. Argentine master artists will work with U.S. and Argentine artists for three weeks of interaction, collaboration, discussions, and creative exchanges.

Ballet Florida, Inc.
West Palm Beach, FL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support Step Ahead, a program for aspiring choreographers. The program is a series of choreographic workshops for Ballet Florida dancers that culminates in a live performance.

Florida Dance Association, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$35,000
To support the 26th annual Florida Dance Festival. The program offers education and training for dance students and teachers, provides creative and collaborative opportunities for dance artists, and presents performances of national and international dance companies.

Florida Grand Opera, Inc.
Miami, FL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$40,000
To support the American premiere of Szulamit by Hungarian composer Ede Donath. This new production will receive five performances at the Dade County Auditorium in Miami and two additional performances at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale.

Florida West Coast Symphony, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the Sarasota Music Festival. Under the artistic leadership of Paul Wolfe, the three-week chamber music festival will encompass professional development activities for emerging musicians, as well as concert performances.

Lamazares, Ivonne
Winter Park, FL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Miami Light Project, Inc. (consortium)
Miami, FL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$30,000
To support the International Hip-Hop Exchange. The annual celebration of hip-hop music, dance, theater, spoken word, visual art, film, and video will feature work by local, national, and international hip-hop artists.

Miami-Dade Community College
Miami, FL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$40,000
To support the Cultura del Lobo performance series. The Cultural Affairs Department of the college will present nine major performances and more than 100 residency activities focusing on contemporary work.

New Theatre (Teatro Nuevo, Inc.)
Coral Gables, FL
$15,000
To support the development, workshop, and production of a new play. Argentine-born Miami playwright Mario Diament will develop a new play, Blind Date, that probes the realities and perceptions of sighted and blind people.

New World Symphony, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$60,000
To support the Musician Professional Development Program. The program, under the artistic direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, will prepare young artists for musical leadership positions in the orchestral field.

South Florida Composers Alliance, Inc.
Miami, FL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support Sound Arts Workshop, a residency program. The project will provide as many as five interdisciplinary artists with access to equipment, technical assistance, and artist fees for the creation of sound-based work.

Tigertail Productions, Inc.
Miami, FL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$20,000
To support the Asian Diaspora of the Americas Festival. The festival will present artists of Asian descent from North and South America whose work examines their cultural roots and/or reflects viewpoints stemming from their ancestry.

University of Florida (on behalf of Documentary Institute)
Gainesville, FL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support the purchase of music rights for a television documentary by Sandra Dickson and Churchill Roberts. Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power, will use jazz, R&B, black protest, and gospel tracks to evoke the tensions of the 1960s.

VSA arts of Florida
Tampa, FL
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support Artists & Audiences: Available for All, a project promoting increased accessibility to the performing arts for artists and audience members with disabilities. VSA arts of Florida will work with a local performing arts center on accessibility improvements to develop a model that can be replicated by other VSA arts affiliates.

Florida Total Dollars Awarded: $325,000
Florida Total Grants Awarded: 14

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