FY 2005 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

CONNECTICUT

Aston Magna Foundation for Music and the Humanities, Inc.
Danbury, CT
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the Aston Magna Music Festival. The 33rd annual festival will feature period-instrument performances at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and Great Barrington, Massachusetts, with tour performances in New York City and Boston.

Connecticut Choral Artists, Inc.
New Britain, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support concerts in The Music in the Life of series. In 2005, the series will focus on architect Frank Lloyd Wright, highlighting music that influenced him or his work.

Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of Travesties, a play by Tom Stoppard, during the company's 40th anniversary season. Travesties is a memory play about a minor official with the British consul in Zurich, Switzerland, whose life intersected with James Joyce, Vladimir Lenin, and artist Tristan Tzara.

Cording, Robert K.
Woodstock, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Curbstone Press, Inc.
Willimantic, CT
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the translation, publication, and promotion of contemporary, multicultural poetry and fiction. Curbstone Press will sponsor readings in bookstores, libraries, schools, and communities with large minority populations.

de Jager, Marjolijn
Stamford, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the translation from Dutch of The School by the Sea by Huub Beursken (1950-). Beursken is a painter, translator, critic, and writer. He has published more than 30 books, including volumes of poetry, novels, essays, and plays, and is currently a poetry critic for a daily newspaper and the weekly magazine De Groene Amsterdammer. The School by the Sea is one of his more recent works. It shows the influence of American poet William Carlos Williams on Beursken's work, while also offering colorful, sensual images that betray Beursken's interest in the visual arts.

Born in Borneo, Indonesia, when the nation was still a colony of The Netherlands (the Dutch East Indies), Marjolijn de Jager grew up with Dutch as her first language. She spent her adolescent years in Amsterdam and immigrated to the U.S. in 1958. She currently teaches Dutch at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

Hartford Stage Company, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of the play, The Cook, by Eduardo Machado. Directed by Michael John Garces, the play takes place in the kitchen of a mansion in Havana, Cuba in 1958, 1972, and 1997.

Pilobolus, Inc.
Washington Depot, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of a new dance theater piece by choreographer Michael Tracy. Titled The Aquarium Project, the work will tour to theaters and aquaria throughout the United States.

Real Art Ways, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support an exhibition series featuring the work of emerging artists in New York state and New England. A jury of artists and curators will select the recipients of the solo exhibitions.

Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support performances and residency activities by dance companies. Breaking Ground Dance Series will include Battleworks, Headlong Dance Theater, and Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, and the Norwegian ballet will participate in the DanceMasters Weekend.

CONNECTICUT total grants: 10
CONNECTICUT total dollars: $187,500

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