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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.

PENNSYLVANIA

American Poetry Review
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of issues of the American Poetry Review. The journal will promote its issues through a direct-mail campaign, special offers to students at writing programs, and Web site visitors.

Arden Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Independence Foundation New Play Showcase. The project will include the world premiere production of Wittenberg, a new play by David Davalos directed by Terry Nolan.

Asian Americans United, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 13th Annual Mid-Autumn Festival. The traditional lunar festival, held in Philadelphia's Chinatown, will feature lantern-making, calligraphy, printmaking, martial arts, Chinese opera, and traditional music and dance, as well as performances by young people and community members.

Astral Artistic Services
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a series of solo recitals and concerts in Philadelphia and New York. The series will include debuts by violinists Jennifer Curtis and Saeka Matsuyama, soprano Dsella Lrusdttir, the Koryo String Quartet, and oboist Katherine Needleman.

Berks Filmmakers, Inc.
Reading, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the exhibition of several curated film and video series. Programs will focus on avant-garde cinema, documentary and animation work, presentations by filmmakers, and screenings of films by artists from the region.

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble Inc.
Bloomsburg, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and tour of the show Connecting A Nation: The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad as part of the arts education program, Theater in the Classroom. Theater in the Classroom tours adaptations of world folk literature and American history to elementary and middle schools.

Carnegie Institute (on behalf of Carnegie Museum of Art)
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the 2008 Carnegie International exhibition, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Widely known as one of the preeminent international surveys of contemporary art in the world, the Carnegie International was founded in 1896 at the behest of museum founder Andrew Carnegie.

Carnegie Institute (on behalf of Three Rivers Arts Festival)
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Three Rivers Arts Festival. The 17-day event in downtown Pittsburgh will present local and national artists working in music, dance, visual arts, and theater.

City Theatre Company, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and world premiere of a new play by David Grimm about the life of American poet Hart Crane. Artistic director Tracy Brigden will direct.

Clay Studio
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Resident Artist Professional Development Program. Designed to serve exceptional artists early in their careers, the program will provide national and international ceramic artists an opportunity to create new work.

Community Design Collaborative of AIA Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the second phase of Infill Philadelphia: Neighborhood Anchors. The project promotes solutions for revitalizing urban neighborhoods through innovative design.

Concerto Soloists (aka Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation and performance of a new work by composer Sir John Tavener and associated educational activities by the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Scored for string orchestra, voice, and timpani, Tavener's work will be performed under the direction of Music Director Ignat Solzhenitsyn.

Dance Affiliates
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the Nikolais Dance Theatre/Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. Throughout the year, Dance Affiliates will present Pioneers and Innovators, a retrospective series examining the roots of contemporary dance and its influence on later generations.

Etruscan Press
Wilkes-Barre, PA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of books of poetry, fiction, and essays. Scheduled authors include H. L. Hix, Carol Moldaw, Jennifer Atkinson, and Roberto Manzano.

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support PhillyFunGuide.com, an online entertainment events calendar, and FunSavers, a weekly e-mail program offering last-minute, discount tickets. The two programs are viewed as national models for joint calendars and information distribution.

Headlong Dance Theater
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a choreographic lab with choreographer Tere O'Connor and the creation of a new work by Headlong Dance Theater's co-artistic directors. O'Connor will teach Headlong Dance Theater his strategies and language for composition, dance dramaturgy, and movement invention.

InterAct, Inc. (aka InterAct Theatre Company)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of Efrat from Afar by playwright Larry Loebell as the centerpiece of a festival of new plays. Panel discussions and readings of new and contemporary plays that explore American perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will occur in conjunction with the production.

Lafayette College
Easton, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support jazz presentations, commissioning, and residency activities. The project will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Williams Center for the Arts through the presentation of four concerts by pianist and artist-in-residence Mulgrew Miller.

Landis & Company Theatre of Magic, Inc. (aka Enchantment Theatre Company) (Consortium)
Glenside, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the creation and tour of an original production of Scheherazade for performance on stage with live symphony orchestras. The work will be premiered by the Enchanted Theatre Company in partnership with the Cleveland Orchestra and performed with additional orchestras nationwide.

Mann Center for the Performing Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Arts in the Park series and performances by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Activities will include dance and music performances by international artists at Fairmont Park.

Marlboro School of Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Invited Master Artist Project of the Marlboro Music Festival. As many as 100 students (ages 18 to 32) will participate in a series of workshops, open rehearsals and concerts, master classes, and lecture-demonstrations led by a group of world-class concert artists, composers, and scholars.

Melanie Stewart and Company Dance, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 2008 nEW Festival. The festival nurtures artists in the creation of innovative, entertaining, and contemporary work.

Network for New Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The Poetry Project concert program. The ensemble will perform new music works reflecting the collaboration between area composers and poets.

New Sounds Music, Inc. (aka PRISM Quartet)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the premiere of a work by composer Zhou Long performed by the Prism Quartet and guest artists Music from China. The work is written for saxophone quartet with traditional Chinese instruments.

Opera Company of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the East Coast premiere of Cyrano by composer David DiChiera and French librettist Bernard Uzan. The project is a collaboration among the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Michigan Opera Theatre, and Florida Grand Opera.

Opera North
Glenside, PA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the production of Blake by H. Leslie Adams and the premiere of Egypt's Nights by composer Leslie Savoy Burrs and librettist Barbara Chase-Riboud. Symposia and pre-performance lectures will be presented at Gwynedd-Mercy College and the Trinity Center for Urban Life for inner-city and rural audiences.

Pennsylvania Ballet Association
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Carnival of the Animals by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. The company premiere of this work will be presented at Philadelphia's Academy of Music.

People's Light & Theatre Company
Malvern, PA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of Crispin, adapted by playwright Russell Davis from the 2003 Newbery Medal-winning novel, Crispin: The Cross of Lead by author Avi. Andy Belser, artistic director of The Gravity Project theater company, will direct the production with accompanying educational activities.

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Voices of Our Time, a program of Philadelphia premieres of new works by living composers. Performances will be held at the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art, American Philosophical Society, and Seaport Museum.

Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Inc.
Merion, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Reawakenings of American Indian Music, a commissioning and performance of new works based on the culture of the Lenni-Lenape Indians of Delaware. Composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate will participate in an artist residency that will include educational programming in Philadelphia and Norristown area schools.

Philadelphia Dance Company (aka Philadanco)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation and documentation of works by Philadanco. The works to be restaged are Ritonello by Gene Hill Sagan and Pretty is Skin Deep, Ugly is to the Bone by Talley Beatty.

Philadelphia Folklore Project (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Art Happens Here, a festival and series of workshops. In partnership with Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble, the project will document and present folk artists to audiences through commissioned residencies in community sites and a culminating Art Happens Here weekend.

Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the commissioning and presentation of works at the Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe Festivals. Artists will perform new works and participate in residency activities such as workshops and post-performance discussions.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Cezanne's Legacy, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will delineate the tremendous impact of the art of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) on successive generations of artists throughout the 20th century up to the present.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association
Philadelphia, PA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Philadelphia Firsts, the orchestra's first performances of works by composers Jennifer Higdon, Anders Hillborg, Herbert Willi, Marc-André Dalbavie, and Thierry Escaich. The concerts will be performed at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

Philadelphia Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commissioning and development of works in the New Plays Project-Year III. The project will also support the world premiere of The Happiness Lecture by theater artist Bill Irwin, with direction by Nancy Harrington.

Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Bridges: A Festival of String Quartets. Performances by the Hugo Wolf, the Shanghai, the Belcea, and the Alexander string quartets will be held at the New Hazlett Theater.

Pittsburgh Opera Theater, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a production of Lost in the Stars by Kurt Weill. Co-produced with the Virginia Arts Festival, the project will draw upon both organizations' shared expertise and technology.

Pittsburgh Opera, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a production of I Capuleti e i Montecchi by Vincenzo Bellini. The company will develop community outreach programs and written support materials.

Pittsburgh Opera, Inc. (Consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the creation of a new production of Saint-Saens' Samson and Delilah. Co-produced with Minnesota Opera, the project will draw upon the shared expertise of both companies and will provide a creative opportunity that will strengthen both organizations.

Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Peter Shaffer's 1979 stage play Amadeus. Producing artistic director Ted Pappas will direct the production, with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Pittsburgh Symphony Society
Pittsburgh, PA
$27,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Composer of the Year residency activities with composer John Corigliano. The project will include the commissioning and performance of a percussion concerto, which will be premiered by guest artist Evelyn Glennie.

Please Touch Museum
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the commissioning of new works of art for the museum's new space at Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park. The museum will be commissioning pieces from up to seven artists and as many as 12 students from the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program's Youth Corps.

Quantum Theatre, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca, directed by Melanie Dreyer. The production will incorporate the flamenco artistry of Carolina Loyola-Garcia into a classic folk tragedy about the power of women in a rural community.

Squonk Opera, Inc.
Pitcairn, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the creation and presentation of Live Broadcast in the Galactic Hum of B-flat. The performances will take place during the 250th anniversary of the city of Pittsburgh.

Tempesta di Mare, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of orchestral works by 18th-century composer Johann Friedrich Fasch. Concerts will be held at Trinity Episcopal Church in Swarthmore and at St. Mark's Church in Philadelphia.

Tempesta di Mare, Inc. (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support No Strings Attached: Love and Death with Music and Puppets. In collaboration with the Mock Turtle Marionette Theater, the performances will be held at the Plays and Players Theater in Philadelphia.

Wilma Theater, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support further development and production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl and a commission to choral composer Toby Twining. Co-artistic director Blanka Zizka will direct the production, with accompanying educational activities.

Wood Turning Center
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the International Turning Exchange. Artists will be given the opportunity to create new work during an eight-week residency program

Zobal, Silas
Shippensburg, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.


Number of Grants: 50          Total Amount: $927,000

 
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