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FY 2013 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works I | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Poetry)

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

MASSACHUSETTS

American Repertory Theatre
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a re-imagining of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie directed by John Tiffany. Re-investigated and re-interpreted by Tiffany and actress Cherry Jones, the play will portray a contemporary single mother separated from her husband raising two children, one of whom is physically and emotionally handicapped, and who are both now grown but still living at home.

Boston Ballet, Inc.
Boston, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of an evening of ballets by choreographer Jiri Kylian including Wings of Wax (1997), Tar and Feathers (2006), and Symphony of Psalms (1978). Symphony of Psalms will be accompanied by the Boston Ballet Orchestra and Boston's New World Chorus; pianist Tomoko Mukaiyama will perform the live improvisations that are integral to the Tar and Feathers score; and Wings of Wax alternates courtly Baroque with the music of Philip Glass and John Cage.

Boston Baroque, Inc.
Boston, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 on period instruments with related educational activities. In celebration of the 40th anniversary season, plans include two first-time Boston Baroque performances of Beethoven's last symphony in Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory, a free concert at the Strand Theatre, pre-concert lectures, school workshops, and a free open dress rehearsal.

Boston Critic, Inc. (aka Boston Review)
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of -- and author payments for -- poetry and fiction in the Boston Review, to be distributed free online. The review devotes a full 20 percent of its content to poetry and fiction, a larger commitment than any other general interest magazine. The content is selected and edited by the award-winning poet Timothy Donnelly and the award-winning novelist Junot Diaz.

Boston Dance Alliance, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Behind the Scenes: In Front of the Curtain Part II, a technical support service for Boston dance artists. Continued development and utilization of their Web and video expertise will help the field reach new audiences and document their work for preservation and marketing.

Boston Lyric Opera Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the co-commission and North American premiere of James MacMillan's Clemency, presented in a double bill with Franz Schubert's Hagar's Lament. The former work will serve as a prologue for the latter work with a new orchestration commissioned by Boston Lyric Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Scottish Opera, and Britten Sinfonia that will bridge the two works.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (on behalf of Tanglewood Music Center)
Boston, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Tanglewood Music Center. The five-day festival, directed by pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, will feature chamber music and orchestral performances by resident musicians and guest artists.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Boston, MA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concerts of works by living composers with related educational activities. Plans include world premiere performances of Augusta Read Thomas's Cello Concerto No.3 with soloist Lynn Harrell and the symphony orchestra's first performances of two works by Oliver Knussen: Violin Concerto, Op. 30 and Whitman Settings for soprano and orchestra with the composer conducting.

Boston University
Boston, MA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Orchestra and Young Artists Wind Ensemble programs. The programs provide an intense summer music training experience for students, including opportunities to attend professional performances and to interact closely with master artists-in-residence throughout the summer.

Boston University (on behalf of AGNI Magazine)
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of AGNI magazine, including a direct-mail campaign and digital conversion. The journal will increase payments to writers and make its issues available on e-readers such as the Kindle.

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Inc.
Boston, MA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Intensive Community Program, a string instrument program. Targeting inner-city youth, the program offers a two-week summer music workshop, followed by weekly music lessons, ensemble classes, and performance opportunities during the school year.

Brattle Film Foundation, Inc. (aka The Brattle Theatre)
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Classic Brattle film series. Each series will be curated around a specific theme, genre, artist, and/or time period.

Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern Mass
New Bedford, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support The Working Waterfront Festival. The occupational culture of commercial fishing and other port industries has changed in the past decade, as demonstrated through traditional music, dance, storytelling, poetry, and foodways.

Cultural Organization of Lowell
Lowell, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the community design and construction planning phases of the Point Park Public Art Project, including work by visual artist Nancy Selvage. Selvage will engage residents in the final design of a large-scale iconic sculpture to be constructed in the primary public space of the Hamilton Canal District, Lowell's centerpiece redevelopment initiative.

Danforth Museum Corporation
Framingham, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support John Wilson: Eternal Presence, an exhibition of Wilson's work and related demonstrations and lectures by visiting scholars. The retrospective solo exhibition focused on Massachusetts native, visual artist John Wilson will span five decades of his work and associated programming will address issues of diversity, as well as foster exploration and understanding of African American art, history, and culture.

Documentary Educational Resources, Inc.
Watertown, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Hossein Omoumi: Classical Persian Music from Isfahan to Irvine, an educational documentary featuring a master of the Persian reed flute. An educational handbook and a website will enhance the project.

Emerson College (on behalf of Ploughshares)
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of the guest-edited journal Ploughshares, as well as the digital publication of 40 years of back issues. The editorial policy of Ploughshares stipulates that each issue be guest-edited by a writer who is given autonomy to apply his or her aesthetic vision; planned guest editors include Major Jackson and Peter Ho Davies.

Emerson College
Boston, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage Theater Development Residencies. The project will foster the creation of new work by offering residencies, rehearsal space, production facilities and support, and performance space on the campus of Emerson College in Boston.

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc. (aka FAWC)
Provincetown, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support the Fellowship Program for Emerging Artists and Writers. Fine Arts Work Center will provide living accommodations, studios, and monthly stipends to as many as 47 selected poets, fiction writers, and visual artists. Approximately 900 people are expected to attend the program's community activities, plus an anticipated 150 public schoolchildren.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the Breaking Ground/HPF Play Lab. The project will provide a three-week writing and performance retreat for four playwrights and eighteen actors to collaborate on artist-driven play development.

Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (aka IBA)
Boston, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Latino Performance Series, Festival Betances, and the Tito Puente Latin Music Series. Programming will include performances by Latino, Chinese, and African American music and dance ensembles, as well as community engagement activities, including matinees for children, open rehearsals, workshops, and mini-recitals. The project, which will take place throughout diverse neighborhoods in Boston, will serve more than 12,000 residents.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Inc. (aka Gardner Museum)
Boston, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will include more than 50 paintings, photographs, and ephemera illuminating the art world of the late 19th century by comparing Zorn's (1860-1920) career on both sides of the Atlantic.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Becket, MA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of artists representing diverse dance forms including Brazilian hip-hop, classical Indian dance, modern dance, and ballet, and the Creative Development Residency. Artists will include Wendy Whelan, Companhia Urbana de Danca, Shantala Shivalingappa, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Tere O'Connor Dance as well as two artists in the Creative Development Residency.

Lowell Festival Foundation
Lowell, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Lowell Folk Festival. The festival will showcase the many cultures that represent the region's diverse ethnic and immigrant populations. Fees will be provided for craft demonstrators and performers.

Madison Park Development Corporation
Roxbury, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the adaptation and performance of the play Street Sounds: Dialogues with Black Existence, written by Ed Bullins. The production will include additional jazz music, original dance choreographed by Mickey Davidson, and expanded monologues.

National Center for Jewish Film, Inc.
Waltham, MA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the retrospective film series Essential Yiddish Cinema. The program will consist of feature-length and short films produced in the 1920s and 1930s.

Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, Inc.
Stockbridge, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support planning and development of an exhibition and catalogue that explores Edward Hopper's 20-year career as an illustrator.  The project will support curatorial research and travel, checklist development, securing contracts and loan agreements, writer and design fees for the catalogue, and photo services.

Orion Society (aka Orion Magazine)
Great Barrington, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support prose and poetry in Orion as well as various digital platforms for easy access to multimedia content. A magazine with a focus on the natural world, the journal will offer Kindle Singles; multimedia author readings and interviews; a website optimized for use on mobile and app-ready devices; e-books; and an online, searchable digital archive.

Project STEP, Inc.
Boston, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Preparatory Division and Pre-College Division string instrument programs. Professional musicians provide private string lessons, theory classes, piano classes, master classes, chamber music, and orchestra instruction to students in fourth through twelfth grade.

Provincetown Arts Press, Inc.
Provincetown, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of Provincetown Arts, a journal dedicated to the creative activity and public recognition of the nation's oldest continuous art colony. Published once a year, each issue features a pairing of a writer with an artist, in which a writer explores the meaning and/or influence of particular visual artists or current art exhibit.

Provincetown International Film Festival
Provincetown, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2013 Provincetown International Film Festival. Now in its 15th year, the festival presents more than 60 American independent films, documentaries, and shorts, as well as international work.

Raw Art Works, Inc.
Lynn, MA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Real to Reel Film School. Young filmmakers learn to use technology including cameras, film editing, lighting, and sound systems, while developing skills in self-efficacy, leadership, and cooperation.

Silk Road Project, Inc.
Boston, MA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Silk Road Project US Tour: Premieres of Commissioned Works under the artistic direction of Yo-Yo Ma. New works, written for both Western and non-Western instrumentation, were developed during workshops with composers David Bruce, Glenn Kotche, and Kojiro Umezaki held at Harvard University.

Sociedad Latina
Roxbury, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support ¡Viva Nuestra Cultura! a multidisciplinary series of performances, film screenings, and workshops. Proposed artists and partners include 12-piece salsa/timba/Latin jazz orchestra Ritmo Masacote, capoeira instructor Mestre Chuvisco, dance not-for-profit Metamovements, the Boston Latino International Film Festival, and Beehive Collective, a visual arts not-for-profit, among others.

Tupelo Press, Inc.
North Adams, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry; enhanced e-books with audio components; a real-time, open-source poem; and multimedia poetry apps incorporating art, film, and music. In addition to publishing traditional books by such poets as Pablo Neruda, Amaud Jamal Johnson, Brazilian poet Adelia Prado, Chinese poet Zang Di, and Syrian poet Muhammad al-Maghut, the press seeks to redefine forms of poetry and prose by focusing on digital technologies that permit writers to re-imagine the "page."

Underground Railway Puppets & Actors, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development and production of a new play from author/physicist Alan Lightman's Mr g: A Novel about the Creation, adapted and directed by Wesley Savick. As part of Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, an ongoing science theater partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the theater will develop this new work through dialogue between scientists, artists, audiences, and community organizations.

Vigorous Interventions in Ongoing Natural Settings, Inc.
Roxbury, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Jazz Concerts in Dudley Square, a series of free concerts featuring alto saxophonist Oliver Lake, tenor saxophonist and drummer Odean Pope, drummer Billy Hart, trombonist Ku-umba Frank Lacy, and the 13-member jazz band Makanda Project. Proposed associated activities include a live visual arts event involving students, audience members, and professional artists who will create art during one of the concerts.

Zeiterion Theatre, Inc. (aka The Z)
New Bedford, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the multidisciplinary Explorations and Encounters programs. Explorations will survey the art and culture of local Puerto Rican and Maya K'ichi communities through performances, artist residencies, discussions, and exhibits. Encounters will engage artists and audiences in a series of formal and informal performances and conversations.


Number of Grants: 38          Total Amount: $1,100,000

 
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