FY 2006 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc. (Long Wharf Theatre)
New Haven, CT
$27,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. The play dramatizes in comic form the temptations of the news media and raises issues of capital punishment, gender, and race.

Curbstone Press, Inc.
Willimantic, CT
$20,000
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 a reading series through public high schools in underserved areas.

Hartford Stage Company, Inc. (Hartford Stage)
Hartford, CT
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, which portrays the life of an African American family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s.

Pilobolus, Inc. (Pilobolus Dance Theatre)
Washington Depot, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new full-evening work by Co-Artistic Director Michael Tracy, set to a classic rock and roll score. The work will premiere at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia in May 2006.

Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support performances and residency activities by dance companies for the Breaking Ground Dance Series, including Urban Bush Women, Troika Ranch, and David Gordon/Pick Up Performance Company. Residency activities will take place on campus and at the Green Street Arts Center and will include a DanceMasters Weekend,a series of master classes and a showcase performance.

Yale University (on behalf of Art Gallery)
New Haven, CT
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the presentation of the exhibition The Societe Anonyme: Modernism for America. The exhibition will include 200 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from the Societe Anonyme Collection at Yale and the Phillips Collection in Washington.

Yale University (on behalf of Yale Repertory Theatre)
New Haven, CT
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of dance of the holy ghosts: a play on memory by Marcus Gardley. The play tells the story of a young African American man struggling to define his relationship to his family, his masculinity, and his identity as a gay man.

Number of Grants: 7          Total Amount: $192,000

 
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