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FY 2009 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence I/Challenge America Fast-Track Grants/Creativity & Aging/Literature Fellowships (Poetry)

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

NEW JERSEY

Aljira, Inc. (aka Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art)
Newark, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Emerge, a professional development program for artists. The program provides guidance from professional artists to the participants and assists with networking opportunities.

Bargowski, John
Phillipsburg, NJ
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Burlington County College
Pemberton, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support The Beauty of the Pinelands, an exhibition featuring botanical illustrator Robin Jess and photographer Michael Hogan. The exhibition will be held at the Burlington County College Student Art Gallery, and will include several community outreach activities, such as discussions with the artists.

Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East
Leonia, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support composer residencies and a commissioning program as part of a summer chamber music conference at Bennington College, Vermont.

City of Newark, New Jersey
Newark, NJ
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Beyond the Box: New Houses for Newark. The project will bring together locally based and internationally known architects with city officials, planners, developers, and the public to discuss and establish a new vision for Newark's low-rise, multifamily, infill houses.

International Sculpture Center, Inc. (aka Sculpture Magazine)
Hamilton, NJ
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support production of Sculpture magazine. Solicited articles will focus on current work of artists, events, and public art projects.

McCarter Theater
Princeton, NJ
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of the Brother/Sister Plays, a cycle of plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney, with accompanying educational and outreach activites. The Tony Award-winning theater will present The Brothers Size, In the Red and Brown Water, and the world premiere of Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet.

Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, NJ
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of performances at Peak Performances at Montclair. The series includes works by artists including composers Joshua Fineberg, Christopher Janney, and Liza Lim (Australia), and choreographer Charlotte Vincent (England).

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Inc.
Fort Lee, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support The Year of the Ox Celebration, featuring pipa artist Hong Tao Sun, dancer Yao Zhong Zhang, and paper-cutting artist Ho Tien Cheng. The performance will be presented at the New Jersery Performing Arts Center (Newark, NJ), Queens College (Flushing, NY), and Kingsborough Community College (Brooklyn, NY).

New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation
Newark, NJ
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Alternate Routes performance series. Project components will include residency activities, commissioning, and artistic collaborations.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Newark, NJ
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support An Evening of Scriabin in Sight and Sound. Directed by music director Neeme Jarvi, the concert program will be performed during the opening weekend of a three-week festival at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

Newark Museum Association
Newark, NJ
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Shaping Utopia: Geometric Abstraction in the Americas, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine the work of a group of artists who came of age in the 1930s and 40s advancing geometric abstraction as a vital form of modern expression.

Opera New Jersey, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support an educational tour of Hansel and Gretel, composed by Engelbert Humperdink. Related activities will include distribution of study guides and a post-performance question-and-answer session with the artists.

People and Stories Gente y Cuentos, Inc.
Trenton, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support literary readings, discussions, and workshops with guest artists Lauren B. Davis, Paul Muldoon, and Alvin Auburt. Partnering organizations are the Bo Robinson Education and Training Center, a residential facility that provides job training services for formerly incarcerated men and women and Operation Fatherhood, an organization that provides workforce resources for non-custodial fathers. Project participants will be selected from the organizations.

Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Inc.
Madison, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the bilingual main stage production and tour of Papa Esta en la Atlantida by Mexican playwright Javier Malpica with translations by American playwright Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas and accompanying outreach activities. The playwrights will participate in several discussions about their work and issues facing Latinos in America. The production will travel to several Latino communities.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Fertile Crescent: Contemporary Women Artists of the Middle Eastern Diaspora. The project will present one solo and one group exhibition by artists of Middle Eastern descent at the Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries and the Douglass Library Galleries.

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium (aka Black Maria Film Festival)
Jersey City, NJ
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. More than 50 organizations host the festival each year, which draws more than 700 entries from throughout the country.

Two River Theater Company
Red Bank, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of ReEntry, by Associate Artistic Director KJ Sanchez and Emily Ackerman. The play will be based on interviews with military men and women returning from Iraq, their families, and friends, with dramaturgy by Ken Cerniglia.

Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, Inc. (aka WheatonArts) (on behalf of Creative Glass Center of America)
Millville, NJ
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency program for emerging and mid-career glass artists at the Creative Glass Center of America. Artists will be provided with housing, a stipend, studio facilities, and technical assistance to work in glass.


Number of Grants: 19          Total Amount: $410,000

 
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