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.

RHODE ISLAND

Alliance of Artists Communities
Providence, RI
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$30,000
To support the development of public outreach activities at artists' communities. The project will consist of a series of training workshops and the publication of educational materials.

Everett Dance Theatre
Providence, RI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of Home Movies. The work will premiere at Trinity Repertory Theater and will include performances for middle and high school students.

Harmon, Joshua
Portsmouth, RI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Perishable Theatre
Providence, RI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support the International Women's Playwright Festival. The festival will include the development and production of three one-act plays by female writers.

Providence Black Repertory Company
Providence, RI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the continued collaborative development of A Tribute to Langston Hughes. Through continued work on this company-created piece, the theater will provide an opportunity for repertory and community actors to expand and refine their skills.

Rhode Island School of Design (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Providence, RI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$45,000
To support an exhibition focusing on one of the museum's paintings Six Friends at Dieppe by Edgar Degas (1885). The work entered the museum's holding in 1931, but due to its medium (pastel on paper) has been restricted from travel on loan to exhibitions.

Trinity Repertory Company
Providence, RI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$55,000
To support the world premiere production of The Buz'Gem Blues by Drew HaydenTaylor, a member of the Ojibway Nation. Elizabeth Theobald Richards of the Cherokee Nation, who has led numerous script development workshops with Native American playwrights, will direct.

Rhode Island Total Dollars Awarded: $185,000
Rhode Island Total Grants Awarded: 7

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