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.
MAINE
Alice James Poetry Cooperative, Inc.
Farmington, ME
$18,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of poetry titles selected from two annual competitions,
the Beatrice Hawley Award and the New York/New England Award. Titles will be promoted to more than
8,000 individuals, bookstores, libraries and literary organizations nationwide.
Bates College (on behalf of the Bates Dance Festival)
Lewiston, ME
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support commissioning, presentation, outreach and educational activities for the Bates Dance
Festival 2002. Dance artists include Jane Comfort and Company, Robert Moses/KIN, David Neumann and
Lisa Race Dance.
Bay Chamber Concerts, Inc. (consortium)
Rockport, ME
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commission and performances of a new work by Billy Taylor and his trio. The new jazz
chamber work for the trio and five additional instruments will be presented by Bay Chamber
Concerts, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.
Bowdoin College (on behalf of the Museum of Art)
Brunswick, ME
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition examining how late 19th and late 20th century representations of
the ghost in visual art functioned metaphorically for both anxiety and optimism at the time of
radical technological innovation. The exhibition will include the work of 19th-century
photographers and contemporary artists working in a variety of media.
Center for Cultural Exchange
Portland, ME
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Passion, a two-part touring program focused on aspects of two distinctive cultures. The
project will present artists from the African-Latin cultural diaspora and from four
Islam-influenced Southern European areas.
Paterniti, Michael
Portland, ME
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.
Roorbach, William F.
Farmington, ME
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.
University of Maine (on behalf of the National Poetry Foundation)
Orono, ME
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of new volumes of poetry as part of the foundation's
Contemporary Poets Series. Scheduled titles include two book-length poems by Theodore Enslin,
Axes and Ranger; and the Collected Poems of Joanne Kyger, 1957-1990.
Total Dollars Awarded: $143,000
Total Grants Awarded: 8
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