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2002 Grant Awards: State Listings

Creativity/Organizational Capacity/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

MASSACHUSETTS

American Repertory Theatre Company, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Lysistrata adapted by Larry Gelbart and directed by Andrei Serban, with music and lyrics by William Bolcom and Arnold Weinstein. The production will be a reunion of artists with long histories of working with American Repertory Theatre, including Tony Award-winning actress Cherry Jones in the title role.

Atlantic Public Media, Inc.
Woods Hole, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support www.Transom.org. The project is a public radio/Internet initiative designed to foster new and artistic audio artworks.

Boston Baroque, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$11,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the commission and premiere performances of a new edition of Monteverdi's operaIl Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria. Il Ritorno d'Ulisse represents the completion of a three-opera Monteverdi cycle during three successive seasons in Boston, with L'incoronazione di Poppea having been performed in 2000 and L'Orfeo performed in 2001.

Boston Film Video Foundation, Inc.
Boston, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support professional and artistic development opportunities for media artists in New England. Through a comprehensive media arts education program, the New England Film and Video Festival, and works-in-progress screenings (Rough Cuts), the foundation provides a full range of services to its constituents.

Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Inc.
Roslindale, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Lukas Foss at 80, a celebration of the composer's contribution to the orchestral repertoire. Plans include a concert of orchestral works by Lukas Foss, a pre-concert lecture by the composer, and a compact disc recording.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
(on behalf of Tanglewood Music Center)
Boston, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music, including tour concerts. The center will present the week long event within the summer festival featuring concerts by ensembles of Tanglewood fellows and guest artists as well as launching a new professional development initiative, Tanglewood on Tour, during the winter.

Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center, Inc.
Wayland, MA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a composer mentorship project enabling emerging composers to study with senior composers and musicians, and for concert presentations and recordings of their work by new music experts at Wellesley College. Ten composers will participate in this project during July and August 2002.

Double Edge Theatre Productions, Inc.
Ashfield, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of a new play. Relentless, an ensemble-created theater work, will be directed by Artistic Director Stacy Klein.

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc.
Provincetown, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Winter Residency Program. The program will provide 20 emerging writers and visual artists with housing, studios and modest monthly stipend for a seven-month period.

Handel & Haydn Society
Boston, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of a semi-staged production of Handel's opera Il Mondo Della Luna. The presentations will take place in Boston's Symphony Hall.

Harvard University (on behalf of the Harvard Film Archive)
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the presentation of two film retrospectives. One will focus on the work of the German director Werner Schroeter, and the other on the Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha.

Harvard University (on behalf of the Harvard University Art Museums)
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Italian artist Medardo Rosso (1858-1928), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Rosso is a key figure in the development of modern sculpture.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a play by Frank McGuiness. Written in 1985, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme depicts the tragedy that befell many Irish regional units during the First World War.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Lee, MA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support dance presentations during Jacob Pillow Dance Festival's 70th anniversary. Each company will be in residency for a week and their work will be presented along with specially curated events.

Musicorda, Inc.
South Hadley, MA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a residency by a pre-professional string quartet to the Musicorda Summer String Program. Activities during 2002 include performances, professional training and outreach activities.

North Shore Community Arts Foundation, Inc.
Beverly, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support three works in the New Works Development Program. North Shore Music Theatre will produce on its main stage the new musicals: The Night Hunter, I Sent a Letter to My Love and Martin Guerre.

Northeast Document Conservation Center (consortium)
Andover, MA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Off the Wall, Online, a national conference on putting art collections on the Internet and using them in educational programming. The goal is to enhance the skills of museum professionals and enable museums to use technology to reach new audiences.

Ploughshares, Inc.
Boston, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and national circulation of issues of Ploughshares to 6,000 readers across the country. The winter 2002-03 and spring 2003 issues will feature new work by 70 poets and 12 fiction writers.

Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation and presentation of new works for chamber orchestra. The premieres of the four new works by composers Christopher Theofanidis, Norman Bolter, Marjorie Merryman and Evan Ziporyn will take place in Cambridge throughout 2002.

Williamstown Theatre Foundation, Inc.
Williamstown, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of Donald Margulies' God of Vengeance. Directed by Gordon Edelstein, the piece will be developed through five weeks of rehearsals involving the playwright.

Women's Review, Inc.
Wellesley, MA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of special issues of The Women's Review of Books. The issues will include fiction, poetry, essays, critical analyses and personal narratives by women who identify themselves as members of a diaspora.

Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the planning stage for the touring exhibition Roots and Legacies in African American Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will trace the development of African American painting, sculpture, collage and printmaking through the 20th century and will focus on African American artists' responses to African art and Cubism.

World Music, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a presentation/residency series. This series will explore cross-cultural influences between traditional and contemporary performing artists.

Yard, Inc.
Chilmark, MA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Bessie Schonberg Choreographers & Dancer Residency. Four emerging choreographers and eight dancers will be selected to be in residence for five weeks and two emerging companies will be chosen for a four-week company residency.

Zephyr Press (Aspect, Inc.)
Brookline, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation, publication and promotion of contemporary literature from China and Poland. Zephyr Press will publish an anthology of contemporary Polish poets and arrange bilingual readings of featured authors in communities with large Polish American populations.

Total Dollars Awarded: $523,000
Total Grants Awarded: 25


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