FY 2010 Grant Awards: State Listings
Access to Artistic Excellence |
Challenge America Fast-Track Grants |
Literature Fellowships (Prose)
Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent
upon prior Endowment approval.
NEW JERSEY
Appel Farm Arts and Music Center
Elmer, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 2010 Arts and Music Festival. Using the theme Building Upon Traditions, the outdoor festival will feature performances, a crafts and visual arts fair, a Children's Village, and in-school outreach activities. Foundations, Inc.
Moorestown, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a performance of the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, featuring trumpet player Rodney Mack. The event, celebrating Black History Month, will include public interviews with composers George Walker and Ellis Marsalis. International Sculpture Center, Inc. (aka Sculpture magazine)
Hamilton, NJ
$25,000
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. Jazz House Kids, Inc.
West Orange, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Generations of Jazz, a program featuring pianist/composer Chick Corea. NEA Jazz Master Corea will lead a master class targeting hundreds of high school music students as well as Inside the Jazz Note, an evening program hosted by bassist Christian McBride. McCarter Theatre
Princeton, NJ
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of Fetch Clay, Make Man by Will Power. The play examines the unlikely friendship between actor Stepin Fetchit and boxer Muhammad Ali. Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Inc.
Fort Lee, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Year of the Tiger Celebration production. The performances will feature performances by Nai-Ni Chen, paper-cutting artist Ho Tien Cheng, and the Chinese Music Ensemble of New York. The performance will be presented at venues in New Jersey and New York. New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation
Newark, NJ
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Sounds of the City, a free music and movement series at NJPAC. The summer concert series will feature emerging performing artists, DJ hosts, and family-friendly activities. Opera New Jersey, Inc. (Consortium)
Princeton, NJ
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the production of George Bizet's Carmen. In collaboration with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the project will involve fully staged performances that will be presented in various locations in the state: McCarter Theater in Princeton, State Theatre in New Brunswick, and New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. Paper Mill Playhouse
Millburn, NJ
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the production of the musical Peter Pan with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Artistic Director Mark S. Hoebee will direct with music by Mark Charlap, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, choreography by Patti Colombo, and additional music by Jule Styne and additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. 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. Project participants will be selected from the Bo Robinson Education and Training Center, a residential facility that provides job training services for formerly incarcerated men and women and Rescue Mission, an organization that provides shelter, food, and clothing to individuals in need. Compilations of participant writings will be distributed at a final ceremony. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
$40,000
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 a group exhibition and other programming by artists of Middle Eastern descent at the Douglass Library Galleries. The Princeton Festival
Princeton, NJ
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a production of G.F. Handel's Ariodante. Current educational programming will be expanded in order to introduce and build audiences for the production. Two River Theater Company
Red Bank, NJ
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a developmental workshop of The Wizard's Tempest, an original adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Artistic Director Aaron Posner will collaborate with magician Teller on the play's development. Union County College Foundation
Cranford, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Regina Taylor's Crowns, a musical theater production. The college will also present vignettes of the play at local venues including Elizabeth High School, a predominately African American and Hispanic institution. William Paterson College of New Jersey
Wayne, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support outreach activities by guest artist Imani Winds, as part of the Cross-Cultural Arts Festival. The wind quartet will target junior high school students with their lecture/demonstration Music of the African Diaspora. Additional activities will include lectures, performances, and workshops for high school and college music students.
Number of Grants: 15 Total Amount: $255,000
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