FY 2007 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.

ARIZONA

Arizona State University (on behalf of ASU Public Events)
Tempe, AZ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the ASU Public Event presentation of the Connecting Communities Series. Performances and residencies will include theater ensemble SITI Company, choreographer Robert Moses Kin, British poet and performer Lemn Sissay and theater performer Peter Reder, choreographer Liz Lerman, spoken-word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and the Philip Glass Ensemble.

Childsplay, Inc.
Tempe, AZ
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of a play adapted from a literary work. Playwright Dwayne Hartford's adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities will be the inaugural performance at the Tempe Center for the Arts.

Nevin, Sean
Tempe, AZ
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Orlich, Ileanha
Paradise Valley, AZ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation from Romanian of The Hidden Way, the final novel of the "Hallipa Trilogy" by Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu. The daughter of General D. Bengescu, Hortensia Bengescu was born in Ivesti, a rural community in south Moldavia, one of Romania's largest provinces. Papadat-Bengescu made her literary debut in 1919 with the volume Ape adânci (Deep Waters), which received high praise from one of Romania's leading critics of that time, Garabet Ibrãileanu. Her "Hallipa Trilogy" is composed of Fecioarele despletite (The Disheveled Maidens, 1926), Concert din muzicã de Bach (A Concert of Music by Bach, 1927), and Drumul ascun (The Hidden Way, 1928). Papadat-Bengescu received the National Prize for fiction in 1946. After the country's takeover by the Communist regime, Papadat-Bengescu lived in dire poverty and received no pension or means of subsistence from the new government. She died in 1955, probably of starvation.

Ileana Orlich is coordinator of the Arizona State University Romanian Program and teaches courses in Eastern European literature and culture. She was educated at the University of Bucharest and Arizona State University. She has received the "Medalia Ordinul Cultural al Romaniei, Ofiter, Categoria A" and the ASU Centennial Professor Award.

Scottsdale Cultural Council (aka Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts)
Scottsdale, AZ
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support performing artists' presentations and community engagement activities and discussions. The project is designed to connect audiences with performers and to foster the exchange of ideas among the participants on important issues of our time.

Number of Grants: 5          Total Amount: $80,000

 
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