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.

NORTH CAROLINA

American Dance Festival, Inc.
Durham, NC
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Pioneers and Frontiers: Tradition and Beyond II. The project will include the commissioning and presentation of American and international modern choreographers and a range of education and outreach activities.

Asheville Art Museum Association, Inc. (Consortium)
Asheville, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Time is of the Essence: Contemporary Landscape, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is a collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Carolina Ballet, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Monet Impressions, works by choreographers Robert Weiss and Lynne Taylor-Corbett.  Monet Impressions will be presented in conjunction with the North Carolina Museum of Art's Monet in Normandy exhibit.

Cooper, Thomas
Chapel Hill, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation from Hungarian of The Snake's Shadow by Zsuzsa Rakovszky, a historical novel set in 17th-century Central Europe against the backdrop of religious wars between Protestants and Catholics. An immediate success in Hungary following its publication in 2002 and already translated into German and French, this 500-page novel is Zsuzsa Rakovszky's first work of prose fiction. It was soon followed by her second novel, A hullócsillag éve (The Year of the Falling Star). Rakovszky is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the Magyar Irodalmi Díj (Hungarian Literary Prize), the most prestigious literary award in Hungary.

Thomas Cooper is the editor of the contemporary authors project for the Petofi Literary Museum in Budapest. He also lectures on Hungarian studies at the University of North Carolina.

Doc Arts, Inc. (aka Full Frame Documentary Film Festival)
Durham, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 10th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. This year's program highlights films produced in the South and encourages discussion on the theme of class in America.  The series will be curated by Ken Burns and St. Clair Bourne. 

EnergyXchange
Burnsville, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a competition for the master plan of a "green" arts campus in Clark County, Indiana. Modeled after an arts campus in North Carolina, the project will use methane gas from a nearby landfill to provide energy for art studios and businesses.

North Carolina Central University (on behalf of Art Museum)
Durham, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition of the work of African American artist Beverly McIver (b. 1962), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will bring the North Carolina native and NCCU graduate back to the Durham area where she began her career more than a decade ago.

North Carolina Dance Theatre
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of works by choreographers Nacho Duato, George Balanchine, and Dwight Rhoden. The project will be presented in the Belk Theater of the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, and the company will provide a comprehensive program of education and outreach offerings.

Penuel, John
Todd, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation from Spanish of the collected short stories of Peruvian author Julio Ramón Ribeyro. This volume will include nearly 100 short stories written between 1952 and 1992 and drawn from eight previously published collections. Ribeyro (1929-94) spent most of his adult life in France, but wrote in his native Spanish. Also a novelist and playwright, he is considered one of Latin America's masters of the short story. The critic Julio Ortega has called Ribeyro "the most fertile influence in new Peruvian literature," and his work has been translated into all the major European languages as well as several Asian ones.

John Penuel was educated at Centenary College of Louisiana, and he taught English in Argentina for a number of years. He has previously translated Julio Ramón Ribeyro's diary, prose pieces, and his first novel Chronicle of San Gabriel.

Sampson, Dennis N.
Winston-Salem, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Triad Stage, Inc.
Greensboro, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a play. Adapted by Jack Kirkland from the novel by Erskine Caldwell, Tobacco Road will be directed by artistic director Preston Lane.

Number of Grants: 11          Total Amount: $210,000

 
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