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.

MARYLAND

Allen, Stephanie T.
Greenbelt, MD
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Baltimore Classical Guitar Society, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commissioning, tour, and recording of a new work for guitar and string quartet by composer Gabriela Lena Frank. Guitarist Manuel Barrueco and Cuarteto Latinoamericano will perform the new work in several U.S. cities including Baltimore, Houston, Pittsburgh, and Atlanta.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support composer residencies, performances, and educational activities. In the inaugural season of Music Director Marin Alsop, seven week-long composer residencies will each begin with Composers in Conversations programs and conclude with performances of their work coupled with a Beethoven symphony or other works from the standard repertoire.

Center Stage Associates, Inc. Endowment Fund (aka CENTERSTAGE)
Baltimore, MD
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich, with accompanying educational activities. David Schweizer will direct the play.

Heifetz International Music Institute, Inc.
Ellicott City, MD
$8,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support communication training for young musicians. Activities will take place during the summer institute held in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.

Imagination Stage, Inc.
Bethesda, MD
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the stage adaptation of the children's novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, with accompanying educational activities. Imagination Stage and Seattle Children's Theatre will co-commission playwright David S. Craig to create a vital addition to the canon of children's theatrical literature for the stage.

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 70th Annual National Folk Festival. To be held in Butte, Montana in 2008, the festival is the longest running multi-ethnic traditional arts festival in the United States.

Round House Theatre
Bethesda, MD
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of The Book Club Play by Karen Zacaras. The production will be directed by Nick Olcott.

Society of Kunqu Arts, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support and preserve the performing arts of Kunqu, the oldest form of Chinese opera. The project will include a series of lectures, demonstrations, workshops, and a fully staged Kunqu performance.

University of Maryland at College Park (on behalf of Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center)
College Park, MD
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Artists as Activists, Performance as Politics, a series of residencies at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Activities will engage audiences, students, and the community in performances, post-performance talkbacks, symposia, and workshops.

Number of Grants: 10          Total Amount: $236,000

 
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