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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.

MASSACHUSETTS

American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.)
Cambridge, MA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of The Orpheus Project, a new work by composer and playwright Rinde Eckert in collaboration with award-winning videographer Denise Marika. The work will investigate the Orpheus myth from a variety of literary, visual, and historical perspectives.

Aspect, Inc. (aka Zephyr Press)
Brookline, MA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of bilingual titles from Polish, Russian, Korean, and Chinese poets. Authors will conduct readings and workshops at high schools and universities across the country.

Barrington Stage Company Inc.
Sheffield, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the inauguration of the Musical Theater Lab for emerging artists. Under the mentorship of Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist William Finn and lyricist/ librettist Sarah Schlesinger of New York University's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, the Lab will identify and assist emerging musical theater writers, composers, and lyricists as they develop new work.

Boston Academy of Music, Inc. (Opera Boston) (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a consortium festival project titled Opera Unlimited. In collaboration with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the second biannual festival will present contemporary chamber operas with an emphasis on new American works and recent works that are rarely performed. Additional activities will include composition workshops, staged readings of works in progress, seminars for adult audience members, and an outreach program designed for charter high school students in an underserved Boston neighborhood.

Boston Ballet, Inc.
Boston, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the commissioning and staging of a new work by choreographer Mark Morris, set to the music of Alexander Glazunov. The work will premiere at Boston's Wang Theatre, and educational activities will include pre-curtain and in-theater talks.

Boston Baroque, Inc.
Belmont, MA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of Requiem in C Minor (1815) by Maria Luigi Cherubini. This work was performed at the funeral of Beethoven, who regarded Cherubini as "Europe's foremost dramatic composer." The performances, using early music period instruments, will take place at the New England Conservatory in Boston.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (BSO)
Boston, MA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concerts and educational activities celebrating the works of Ludwig van Beethoven and Arnold Schoenberg, focusing on the composers' dramatic stylistic transformations as their careers progressed. Plans include 19 concerts of six different programs, pre-concert lectures, a multi-media exhibit from the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna, and scholarly symposia.

Celebrity Series of Boston (aka Bank of America Celebrity Series) (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a consortium project to present modern dance companies including Mark Morris Dance Group, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and the Kirov Ballet. Outreach activities will include Dance Across the City Day, a series of performances, lecture-demonstrations, and master calsses in area schools and community centers.

Community Economic Development Center of SE Massachusetts
New Bedford, MA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2006 Working Waterfront Festival. The event will be a celebration of the occupational culture of the commercial fishing industry with activities including demonstrations and contests of occupational skills, children's activities, oral history stations, and cultural musical performances.

Double Edge Theatre Productions, Inc.
Ashfield, MA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development, production, and tour of Under the Sign of the Crocodile, based on the life and works of Polish Jewish artist Bruno Schultz, focusing on his novels, artwork, and letters.

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc. (FAWC)
Provincetown, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Residency Fellowship Program for emerging artists. As many as 20 emerging visual artists and writers will be provided housing, studios, and a monthly stipend during this seven-month residency program.

Forest Hills Educational Trust
Boston, MA
$26,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the creation of temporary works to be installed on the grounds of an historic cemetery. Selected artists will explore the founding concepts of the 19th-century cemetery as a final resting place, and as a meditative place for the living.

Handel & Haydn Society
Boston, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of Handel's oratorio Belshazzar (1744) and related educational activities. Two period-instrument performances will be preceded by presentations by musicologists and experts in Baroque music. Complimentary tickets will be offered to students in the Vocal Apprenticeship Program.

Harvard University (on behalf of Harvard Design Magazine)
Cambridge, MA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the publication of two issues of Harvard Design Magazine. The magazine includes commissioned essays and photography that explore critical issues in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.

Harvard University (on behalf of Harvard University Art Museums)
Cambridge, MA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Frank Stella 1958, with an accompanying catalogue and symposium. The project will assemble for the first time the 30 paintings produced by Stella (b. 1936) in his first year as a practicing artist.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the New Theatres/New Works artistic development programs. Play development activities will include commissions, residencies for local playwrights, dramaturgical and developmental support for local and national playwrights, and the Breaking Ground new play festival.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Becket, MA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support residencies and performances of dance companies. The project will include a Creative Development Residency Program for two companies; the presentation of national and international dance companies; and the Audience Engagement Program, a series of 200 free events including talks with artists and scholars, a K-12 arts education program, and a program for at-risk youth.

Link, Kelly
Northampton, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (on behalf of List Visual Arts Center)
Cambridge, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the commissioning of a site-specific sculpture by American artist, Richard Serra (b. 1939). The new work will add to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's active public art program, which includes work by Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, and Louise Nevelson.

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc. (MASS MoCA)
North Adams, MA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of performances, exhibitions, residencies, and media screenings. Participating artists will include visual artist Huang Yong Ping, photographer Cindy Sherman, and musician Craig S. Harris.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
A consortium project to support the touring exhibition El Greco to Velazquez: Art of the Court of Philip III, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is taking place with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

National Center for Jewish Film
Waltham, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the preservation of Sidney Golden's His Wife's Lover (1931). The Center recently acquired the sole extant 35mm nitrate print of the film, billed as "the first Jewish musical comedy talking picture."

Ploughshares, Inc. (Ploughshares)
Boston, MA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of issues of Ploughshares. The winter 2006-07 and spring 2007 issues will feature new work by as many as 70 poets and 12 fiction writers.

Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
Rockport, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 25th annual chamber music festival. Free family concerts and free educational lectures will be presented. The project will include special concerts of world music, featuring a Balinese gamelan performance and an Indian classical program.

Rose, Daniel Asa
Rehoboth, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Claude Drawings from the British Museum, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. This is the first U.S. exhibition of the work of influential French artist Claude Lorrain (1600-82) since 1982.

World Music, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of contemporary dance companies, professional development programs for Boston-based dance artists, and a series of residency activities. Residency activities will include workshops, master classes, and discussions.

Yard, Inc.
Chilmark, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Bessie Schonberg Choreographers and Dancers Residency and a company residency. Emerging choreographers and dance companies will be in residence for four weeks.


Number of Grants: 28          Total Amount: $763,500

 
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