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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.

WASHINGTON

33 Fainting Spells (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support a consortium project to present dance films and videos. 33 Fainting Spells will partner with the Northwest Film Forum to present New Dance Cinema, a biennial festival featuring the work of choreographers, videographers, and filmmakers from North America and Europe.

A Contemporary Theatre, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the world premiere production of Tale of Two Cindys by Steven Dietz. The production will feature two separate, interrelated plays performed concurrently by one cast in two separate venues.

Allied Arts Foundation (on behalf of Lingo dancetheater)
Seattle, WA
$9,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation of an evening-length dance theater work choreographed by artistic director KT Niehoff. The premiere will take place at On the Boards in Seattle and later will be performed at University of California, Riverside.

Braden, Allen
Tacoma, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.  

Carter Family Puppet Theater
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support a new adaptation of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Director and puppeteer and director Stephen Carter will collaborate with company artists in this adaptation of Mozart's opera of fantasy, romance, and treachery. Classroom workshops and post-show discussions will also be featured.

CDA (Cultural Development Authority of King County)
Seattle, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies 
To support Arts Card, an entrepreneurial arts marketing tool using new technology to introduce audiences to the arts. Similar to a retail gift card, an arts card will be redeemable at participating arts organizations throughout King County.

Center for Religious Humanism (on behalf of Image)
Seattle, WA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the production, promotion, and increased writers fees for issues of Image: A Journal of the Arts & Religion. The journal will increase its national reach through an improved Web site and a direct mail campaign.

Cinema Seattle
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the 10th Women in Cinema Film Series. Approximately 25 films will be presented to an audience of more than 10,000 people.

Confluence Project (Confluences)
Vancouver, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design 
To support the commission of Maya Lin with Jones and Jones Architects to design a landscape architecture installation. The installation site is within the Fort Vancouver National Historic Reserve located at the confluence of the Columbia River and the ancient Klickitat Trail.

Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of books of poetry. Authors include C.D. Wright, Alberto Rios, Arthur Sze, W.S. Merwin, and June Jordan.

Early Music America, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support an updated survey of the field of early music in America. Last published in 1989, the survey will provide a current census of the field.

Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the 17th annual Earshot Jazz Festival in various Seattle venues. The festival will present more than 200 international and regional jazz artists in more than 40 concerts and outreach activities.

Edwards, Georgia B.
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.  

Emerald City Arts
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support a semi-staged production of an American musical. In partnership with the 5th Avenue Theatre, the Seattle Men's Chorus will produce a concert version of a musical by composer Jule Styne and lyricist Leo Robbin.

Esoterics
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the creation and presentation of new a cappella choral compositions. Composers Byron Au Yong, Diane Thome, Bern Herbolsheimer, and Donald Skirvin will set verses from Taoism, Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism.

Flenniken, Kathleen
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.  

Jack Straw Foundation
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support a residency program for the creation of new audio art works. The program will make available Jack Straw studio space and other facilities to Northwest artists who work in diverse disciplines.

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support Deep Focus, a curated film exhibition series. The project will present director retrospectives by narrative and experimental filmmakers in both of the Northwest Film Forum's two theaters.

Northwest Folklife
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the presentation of regional, traditional art forms of the Pacific Northwest at the 2005 Northwest Folklife Festival. The project will feature recipients of apprenticeship grants, heritage awards, and National Heritage Fellows from the states of Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Washington.

On the Boards
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting 
To support the New Performance Series. Ancillary activities such as master classes, post-performance question-and-answer sessions, panels, and workshops also are planned.

Pilchuck Glass School
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support a summer artist residency program. Artists will be provided with resources, facilities, and technical assistance to experiment with new work in glass.

Porter, William A.
Port Townsend, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the translation from classical Chinese of the poetry of Wei Ying-wu. Born in 737, Wei Ying-wu served in many different government roles and was known for his honesty and concern for the people under his care. After his retirement from service, he chose to live in a Buddhist temple instead of an estate commensurate with his status. It was not until the Sung dynasty (960-1278) that he was recognized as one of the great poets of the T'ang period, especially in terms of his ability to describe landscapes and natural settings, and to conjure the moods of seclusion and serenity. His poetry is also distinctive because of its concern with the lives of ordinary people. Wei Ying-wu has been considered for the last 1,000 years as one of the T'ang Dynasty's great poetic masters, yet remains unknown in the West. This project renders into English about one-third (150-200) of his surviving poems.

William Porter, who writes under the pseudonym Red Pine, first began translating Chinese poetry in 1973, while living in a Buddhist monastery in Taiwan. The author of numerous translations, his most recent anthology of China's best-known T'ang and Sung poetry, Poems of the Masters, was published in 2003. Over the years, he has received many honors for his work and has produced more than one thousand radio programs about Chinese culture.

Seattle Children's Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of Joe Sutton's adaptation of The Red Badge of Courage, based on the Steven Crane novel. The story follows young Henry Fleming, who is fascinated by the glory of war; performances will be followed by post-show discussions.

Seattle Opera
Seattle, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support a production of Daniel Catan's opera Florencia in the Amazons (sung in Spanish with English supertitles) and outreach activities. The project will include free preview talks, lectures, and radio broadcasts.

Seattle Pro Musica Society
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the world premiere of a new choral work by John Muehleisen and the performance of Mozart's Mass in C Minor. The concert performance, conducted by Karen P. Thomas, will take place at St. James Cathedral in Seattle.

Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support new play festivals that will provide emerging writers with opportunities to develop scripts through workshops and readings. Hot Type and the Women Playwrights Festival provide competitively identified playwrights with opportunities to work with teams of actors, dramaturges, and directors toward the development of new scripts.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the New Europe Festival, a project celebrating Central and East European music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Under the direction of Gerard Schwarz, concerts of music by Bartok, Kodaly, Janacek, Dohnanyi, Kurtag, and Lutoslawski will be presented.

Unidentified Moving Objects Company, Inc.
Vashon, WA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the development and presentation of a new piece of theater based on the Grimm's fairy tale Rapunzel. Using the ensemble's advanced aerial and movement skills, the company will create a work that explores the transitions from adolescence to adulthood to old age.

Velocity Dance Center (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$16,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support a consortium project for the national dance touring alliance. Velocity Dance Center will partner with the Southern Theater in Minneapolis to provide performance opportunities for dance companies in Seattle, San Francisco, and Minneapolis.

Yakima Valley Museum and Historical Association
Yakima, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support an exhibition of Latino traditional artists and an accompanying catalogue. The exhibit will include information on the Hispanic immigration to Washington, Hispanic traditional arts and their significance to the community, and master traditional artists of the region.

WASHINGTON total grants: 30
WASHINGTON total dollars: $685,500


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