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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.

TEXAS

Alley Theatre
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$20,000
To support the production of a classic musical theater work. Guys and Dolls will be performed by the Alley's resident company of actors.

ArtLies
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$15,000
To support the reviews section of ArtLies, a quarterly publication that covers the visual arts in Texas. ArtLies seeks to expand its news coverage and critical dialogue.

ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art
San Antonio, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$40,000
To support residencies for artists to create new work. Participating artists will be provided with housing, workspace, technical assistance, transportation costs, and a monthly stipend for a two month residency.

Aurora Picture Show
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$11,000
To support a curated film series. Media Archeology: A 16mm Film Collectors' Series will showcase films ranging from home movies to stock footage.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the presentation of a curated film and video series. Over 90 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 25,000 people.

Center for Women & Their Work
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$27,000
To support a series of solo exhibitions for young and emerging women artists of Texas. The exhibitions will be accompanied by catalogues, educational programs, and outreach activities.

City of El Paso, Texas Arts and Culture (on behalf of Arts Resource Department)
El Paso, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
$12,000
To support the Discovery Series Performances, lecture demonstrations, and master classes will be conducted by Ballet Hispanico, the Martha Graham Dance Ensemble, and the Turtle Island String Quartet in El Paso, Las Cruces, NM, and Chihuahua City, Mexico.

City of San Antonio, Texas Office of Cultural Affairs
San Antonio, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$35,000
To support the fourth International Accordion Festival. The event celebrates the accordion's central role in the traditional music of the United States and throughout the globe.

Contemporary Arts Association of Houston
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by contemporary American artist Andrea Zittel (b. 1965), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Critical Space 1991-2003, will be the first U.S. examination of her sculptural investigations of domestic and urban environments and the ways in which people adjust to contemporary life.

Da Camera Society of Texas, Inc.
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$15,000
To support American Individualism, a series of concerts and community events that will explore individualism among contemporary American composers. Two American composers of differing generations will be highlighted: George Crumb and Charles Wuorinen.

Dallas Opera
Dallas, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$20,000
To support a production of Jenufa by Leos Janacek. Four performances of the opera will be given at the Music Hall at Fair Park.

Dance Umbrella
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$20,000
To support the presentation of dance events. Artists will participate in week-long residencies that include professional level and community-based master classes, community discussions and lecture demonstrations, and educational activities in local, middle, and high schools.

DiverseWorks, Inc.
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$35,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of new works. The project will include a series of visual arts exhibitions, performances, artist residencies, and educational activities.

Fotofest, Inc.
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$48,000
To support FotoFest 2004, a biennial photographic festival that includes exhibitions, new media art events, artist portfolio review, and a catalogue. FotoFest works with more than 60 organizations to present the month-long event that attracts more than 225,000 visitors worldwide.

Houston Ballet Foundation
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$30,000
To support the creation and presentation of a work choreographed by Julia Adam. The concept for the work will be a Jewish wedding, accompanied by klezmer music.

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Inc.
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$20,000
To support a residency program for craft artists. Participating artists who work in traditional craft media (wood, fiber, metal, clay, and glass), or through processes traditionally thought of as craft, are eligible to apply through an open call process.

Houston Friends of Music
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support performances and residency activities by chamber ensembles. The American String Quartet, Eastman Brass, Enso Quartet, and Eroica Trio will be presented in concert at the Stude Concert Hall on the campus of Rice University.

Houston Symphony Society
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$35,000
To support the continuation of the Concerto Commissioning Project. Composer Damian Montano will create a new concerto for piccolo, contrabassoon, and chamber orchestra.

Inprint, Inc.
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support the Inprint Brown Reading Series. Inprint will send brochures to more than 100 print and broadcast media groups and 6,500 households throughout Houston, and will place posters and postcards at bookstores, theaters, cafes, schools, libraries, and universities.

International Cinematexas Short
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$15,000
To support the Austin Eye+Ear Performance Series. The series will showcase work by artists who have not previously performed in Austin.

Jump-Start Performance Company
San Antonio, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the development and production of Epcot-El Alamo, a Chicano science fiction performance opera created by Guillermo Gomez-Peña. The collaborative development team will include performance artists, actors, dancers, and musicians from Jump-Start and La Pocha Nostra.

Kitchen Dog Theater Company
Dallas, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$12,000
To support the 2004 New Works Festival. The festival will feature a mainstage production of a new American play, seven staged readings of new plays, and staged readings of new works by young writers through the PUP (Playwrights Under Progress) Fest.

National Association of Latino Arts
San Antonio, TX
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$60,000
To support a national conference and leadership institute. The two-part project will offer Latino cultural organizations opportunities to develop organizational and leadership skills.

Project Row Houses
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$55,500
To support a residency program to commission installations in several shotgun-style row houses. To commemorate Project Row House's 10th anniversary, local and national artists will transform the houses into community workshops for streetscape and environmental enhancements.

Rude Mechanicals-A Theatre Collective
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$20,000
To support the development and production of Stadium Devildare. The project will be a collaboration with playwright Ruth Margraff.

Salvage Vanguard Theater
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$12,000
To support the commissioning, development, and production of a new musical, Genghis Khan. Librettist/director Jason Neulander and composer Graham Reynolds will create an operatic music theater piece juxtaposing current events and Genghis Khan.

Southwestern Alternate Media
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support the production and statewide distribution of The Territory. As the longest running showcase of media art in the United States, the public television series presents independent film and video works to over 12 million viewers throughout Texas.

Strom, Dao
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Texas A&M Research Foundation
College Station, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$40,000
To support Writing the Self and Community, a series of public readings and writing workshops organized by the journal Callaloo. The journal will sponsor two-week summer workshops at Texas A&M University and one-day workshops at historically black colleges and universities around the country.

Texas Book Festival
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$15,000
To support readings and panel discussions by prominent authors participating in the Texas Book Festival. The 2004 festival will feature such writers as Michael Cunningham, Jane Smiley, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Larry McMurtry.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$45,000
To support the Community Residency Program. The program will consist of four residencies in underserved Texas towns with populations of fewer than 10,000.

University of Houston (on behalf of Blaffer Gallery) (consortium)
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Jessica Stockholder (b. 1959), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is a collaboration with the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

University of Houston (on behalf of Arte Público)
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$50,000
To support the publication and promotion of Spanish language editions of Arte Público's U.S. Latino literature for young adults. The press will sponsor author readings and distribute teacher guides that include background information, author biographies, analyses of major themes, and bibliographies for further reading.

University of Texas at Austin (on behalf of Center for Middle Eastern Studies)
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support the publication and promotion of Arabic fiction in translation. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies will publish the work of Syrian author Walid Ikhlassi; Iraqi author Buthayna al-Nassiri; and Samir Naqqash, a Jewish author from Iraq who lives in Israel and writes in Arabic.

Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$15,000
To support the 18th Dallas Video Festival. The event will present classic work programmed with new video art.

Texas Total Dollars Awarded: $907,500
Texas Total Grants Awarded: 35


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