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FY 2008 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 (aka A.R.T.)
Cambridge, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Cardenio by Charles Mee and Stephen Greenblatt, a new work inspired by the lost play by William Shakespeare. The production will be directed by Les Waters and performed at the Loeb Drama Center, with subsequent performances at the Public Theatre in New York.

Arts Foundation of Cape Cod
Centerville, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support New Markets for Cape Cod Artists. The series of marketing and business development training opportunities for regional artists will include workshops, individual technical assistance, and a conference focused on best practices and collaborations.

Aspect, Inc. (aka Zephyr Press)
Brookline, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of bilingual books of poetry by Turkish-German, Polish, and Hong Kong poets by Zephyr Press. The Web site will also be expanded into a premier site for international poetry, with bilingual poems and audio files of poets reading their work.

Boston Ballet, Inc.
Boston, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of choreographer Antony Tudor's classic 1937 work Dark Elegies. The work will premiere at the Wang Theatre in Boston.

Boston Dance Alliance, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a comprehensive audience development plan and an expansion of information for the dance community. Boston Dance Alliance will create a Dance Bill program, which will offer a calendar of performances, information about the dance community, and interviews, and will add video streaming to its Web site.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (on behalf of Tanglewood Music Center)
Boston, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Tanglewood Music Center. The week-long concert series, under the direction of Boston Symphony Orchestra's music director James Levine, will feature a centenary celebration of composer Elliott Carter, who is expected to attend.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support world premiere performances of newly commissioned works by composers John Harbison and William Bolcom, with associated educational activities. As part of the orchestra's 125th-anniversary season, the performances of the works will be preceded by lectures and an open rehearsal for local high school students.

Boston University (on behalf of AGNI Magazine)
Boston, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of issues of AGNI Magazine. The magazine will conduct a direct-mail campaign, hire a publicist, and place newly designed advertisements in national magazines.

Cantata Singers Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Slavery Documents 3, a commissioning, recording, performance, and audience engagement project. Continuing a series of commissions focusing on oppressed peoples, Israeli composer Lior Navok will create a new work for chorus, soloists, and orchestra using historic documents from the Holocaust.

Cape Cod Theatre Project Inc.
Falmouth, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development, rehearsal, and staged readings of new American plays. The play development process will include accompanying outreach activities.

Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern Mass
New Bedford, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2008 Working Waterfront Festival. The event will celebrate the occupational culture and artistic traditions of New England's commercial fishing community.

Double Edge Theatre Productions, Inc.
Ashfield, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support The Disappearance, based on short stories by Mexican Jewish author and scholar Ilan Stavans. Founder and artistic director Stacy Klein and Stavans will co-create the production.

Emerson Umbrella, Inc.
Concord, MA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Musketaquid Earth Day celebrations. An annual tradition in the city of Concord since 1990, the project will include the River Ceremony, Earth Day Parade, and the Arts and Environment Festival.

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc.
Provincetown, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Residency Fellowship Program for emerging artists. Visual artists and writers will receive housing, studios, and a monthly stipend during their residencies.

Frank, Judith
Amherst, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Fund for Boston Neighborhoods, Inc. (on behalf of The Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism, & Special Events, Boston)
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Summer in the City series presented by The Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism, & Special Events, Boston. Components of the series will include the Boston Arts Festival, Gospel Fest, Hip Hop Festival, Latin Music Festival, Dance Away the Night, and the Waterfront Performing Arts Series.

Greater Lowell Regatta Festival Charitable Foundation
Lowell, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Lowell Folk Festival. The annual festival continues to show the extraordinary quality of ethnic American arts, reflecting the cultures of Lowell on its stages as well as in its craft areas and foodways.

Handel & Haydn Society
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support historically informed performances of Haydn's Mass in Time of War and associated educational activities. Two concerts will be conducted by artistic adviser Sir Roger Norrington.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Today's Artists, Tomorrow's Works Program. The project will include a playwrights' fellows program, the Breaking Ground Festival of new play readings, and a world premiere by program alumnus Sinan Unel.

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, presentation of national and international dance companies, and audience engagement and educational programs.

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc. (aka MASS MoCA)
North Adams, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of performances, exhibitions, residencies, and film screenings at MassMOCA. Artists will participate in school presentations, artist talks, open rehearsals, and work-in-progress performances.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (aka MFA)
Boston, MA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition The Future of Tradition: Chinese Ink Painting Today, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project involves contemporary Chinese ink painters responding to classical artworks from China's past.

Ploughshares, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of issues of Ploughshares. The fall 2008, winter 2008-09, and spring 2009 issues will feature new work by as many as 35 poets and 20 fiction writers.

Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
Rockport, MA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the world premiere performance of Quintet for Piano and Strings, a new work by composer Charles Wuorinen. Pianist Peter Serkin and the Brentano String Quartet will perform the work in Jordan Hall in Boston.

Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Like Breath on Glass: Painting Softly from Whistler to Davies with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition, cutting across art-historical classifications, reveals a continuity among key American painters based upon their virtuosic handling of paint to achieve shimmering surfaces, images suggested rather than delineated.

Treble Chorus of New England, Inc.
North Andover, MA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the annual Opera Workshop Program. The summer workshop provides training and educational opportunities for young singers ages nine to 18.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on behalf of Jubilat)
Amherst, MA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of issues of Jubilat. Each issue will feature contemporary poetry, translations, reprints, found pieces, lyric prose, and author interviews.

World Music, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of contemporary dance companies. Residency activities will include master classes for dancers and activities at local schools.

Yard, Inc.
Chilmark, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Bessie Schoenberg Choreographers and Dancers Residency and a residency for dance companies. The residencies provide a supportive environment for the creation and premiere of a new work.


Number of Grants: 29          Total Amount: $675,000

 
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