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.

NEW JERSEY

Aljira, Inc.
Newark, NJ
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$30,000
To support Emerge, a professional development fellowship for artists. The program seeks to provide advice from professional artists to the participants and to assist with networking opportunities.

CavanKerry Press, Ltd.
Fort Lee, NJ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support the publication and promotion of first books of poetry, including one title in the press's LaurelBooks: The Literature of Illness Series. The press will distribute free books to seniors, prisons, schools, and the community of patients and caregivers.

Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East
Leonia, NJ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support composer residencies and a commissioning program as part of a summer chamber music conference. Activities will take place at Bennington College in Vermont and Vassar College in New York.

International Sculpture Center, Inc.
Hamilton, NJ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$22,000
To support a series of articles and reviews on emerging and under-recognized artists for Sculpture magazine. Articles solicited will focus on work of current artists, events, and public art projects.

Jersey City Museum, Inc.
Jersey City, NJ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by African American artist Chakaia Booker (b. 1953), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Jersey Ride will be a mid-career presentation of the artist's work.

McCarter Theatre Company
Princeton, NJ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$40,000
To support a production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida, directed by Lisa Peterson. Sets for the production will be designed by scenic artist Michael Yeargan.

National Poetry Series, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$12,000
To support evaluation fees and publication costs for poetry volumes selected from the National Poetry Series Open Competition. Chosen by a panel of distinguished poets, the five winning manuscripts will be published by HarperCollins Publishers, Louisiana State University Press, Coffee House Press, the University of Illinois Press, and Viking Penguin.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (consortium)
Newark, NJ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$50,000
To support co-festivals commemorating the 100th anniversary of Antonin Dvorak's death and in celebration of his musical influences on the U.S. The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO) will present linked Dvorak festivals, using the composer's 9th Symphony as a programming centerpiece.

Painted Bride Quarterly, Inc.
Camden, NJ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$7,000
To support the publication and promotion of the online magazine's second annual print anthology. The anthology will include four theme issues: Spaces/Places, the Reciprocity issue, the New Jersey issue, and the Aesthetics and Technology issue.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway, NJ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$15,000
To support printmaking opportunities for artists who have not worked with the medium. The project includes an honorarium, studio access for two weeks, materials, housing and transportation costs, and access to the facility's master printer and support staff.

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium
Jersey City, NJ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. Over 60 organizations host the festival each year, which draws more than 700 entries from throughout the country.

Wheaton Village, Inc.
Millville, NJ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$15,000
To support residencies for glass artists to create new work at the Creative Glass Center of America. The center will provide housing, a monthly stipend, supplies, materials, and 24-hour access to the Wheaton Glass Factory.

New Jersey Total Dollars Awarded: $271,000
New Jersey Total Grants Awarded: 12

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