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.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Dartmouth College (on behalf of Hopkins Center)
Hanover, NH
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Visiting Performing Artist Series at the Hopkins Center. Residencies will feature presentations of new and existing works by theater artists, dance companies, choreographers, and musicians from around the world.

MacDowell Colony, Inc.
Peterborough, NH
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support artist residencies. Artists will receive a working studio and room and board for as long as two months.

Monadnock Music
Peterborough, NH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support free community concerts in rural southwestern New Hampshire towns. Summer concerts by soloists, ensembles, and chamber orchestras will be performed in churches and meeting houses each week during the two months of the festival.

Old Man of the Mountain Legacy Fund
Concord, NH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the commissioning of a memorial to the Old Man of the Mountain, a beloved cliff-side formation that collapsed in 2003. Artist Shelly Bradbury and designer Ron Magers were selected through a national competition undertaken in partnership with the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.

Opera North
Lebanon, NH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the Young Artist Program for singers. The professional development project will provide opportunities for singers to perform in supporting operatic roles, primary roles in family matinee productions, and community outreach activities.

Saint Anselm College
Manchester, NH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition, A Figural Presence, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be composed of 20 to 30 contemporary American figurative artworks, including painting, drawing, and sculpture, tracing the enduring aesthetic values within the representational mode.

Number of Grants: 6          Total Amount: $115,000

 
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