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.

OREGON

Eugene Symphony Association, Inc.
Eugene, OR
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support American Encounters: Michael Daugherty, a performance and composer residency project. In addition to performances of his work, the project will include onstage commentary by Daugherty and a four-day residency featuring coaching sessions, pre-concert lectures, and master classes.

MediaRites
Portland, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the distribution of a public radio documentary titled Crossing East. The eight-hour project on Asian American history will focus on the many waves of Asian immigration into the United States. Additional project activities will include community events in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Honolulu and a program Web site.

Miracle Theatre Company (Miracle Theatre Group)
Portland, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of ROAD TO XIBALBA by Joann Farias. The play, inspired by the Mayan sacred book Popul Vuh, concerns a group of Hispanic students visiting Mayan ruins who are transported back to the ancient world.

Ochsner, Regina
Keizer, OR
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Oregon Ballet Theatre
Portland, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer James Kudelka, set to music by Mozart, as part of Portland's Month of Mozart. Arts education and community outreach programs for children and adults will include a Brown Bag Luncheon, a Dance Talks lecture series, and a Student Performance series.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association (Oregon Shakespeare Festival)
Ashland, OR
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a play. Up (The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair) by Bridget Carpenter. Education and outreach programming will include pre- and post-show discussions with the playwright, dramaturg, and production staff.

Portland Center Stage
Portland, OR
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 8th annual Just Add Water/West (JAW/West) Playwrights Festival. As the cornerstone of the theater's new play development program, the festival develops new works from competitively selected, emerging American playwrights.

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA)
Portland, OR
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Time Based Art (TBA) Festival and related educational activities. The festival is a 10-day event featuring local, national, and international artists working in dance, theater, music, performance art, film, and multidisciplinary forms.

Portland Opera Association Inc.
Portland, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the production of Nixon in China by John Adams. Educational and outreach activities will include a study guide and admission to the final dress rehearsal for students, public previews at widely accessible venues, pre-curtain lectures, and post-performance question-and-answer sessions led by the opera's general director.

Profile Theatre Project
Portland, OR
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of Redwood Curtain and staged readings of Sympathetic Magic, two plays by Lanford Wilson. Lanford Wilson will lead a playwriting workshop for local artists, and the company also will offer study guides, student matinees, and lectures.

Sojourn Theatre
Portland, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and world premiere of a new play. Artistic Director Michael Rohd will write and direct Campaign, a documentary theater work about war.

Story Line Press, Inc.
Ashland, OR
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of new anthologies, drama, and books of poetry. The press will publish the anthologies Enopoetica: Poetry Inspired by Wine and Deep Television, an anthology of the work of more than 60 poets including James Cummins, Donald Hall, and Kim Addonizio.

White Bird
Portland, OR
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of U.S. and international dance companies in the White Bird/Portland State University Dance series. The series will include master classes and outreach activities.

Wisdom of the Elders, Incorporated
Portland, OR
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the First Annual Northwest Indian Storytelling Festival. The event will spotlight storytellers from Oregon and Washington tribes; feature the music, dance, crafts, and foods of Pacific Northwest Indian tribes; and include a Storytellers Apprenticeship Conference.

Number of Grants: 14          Total Amount: $215,500

 
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