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.

MICHIGAN

Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 40th Ann Arbor Film Festival and its national tour. Over 125 films will be presented to an audience of over 21,000 people in Michigan and the states to which the festival tours.

Concert Competitions and Musical Development, Inc.
Dearborn, MI
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Sphinx Competition for gifted emerging string musicians. During 2002, the competition's semi-finalist string players will perform with the Sphinx Symphony at the Honors and Finals Concerts in Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra (consortium)
Detroit, MI
$70,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Roberto Sierra for orchestra and saxophone as well as composer and soloist residency activities. The work will receive its world premiere by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Detroit saxophone player James Carter conducted by Neeme Jarvi.

Frye, David L.
Ann Arbor, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation from Spanish of El Periquillo Sarniento (The Mangy Parrot) by Mexican writer Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi. Published in 1816, El Periquillo Sarniento is widely recognized as the first Mexican and the first Latin American novel.

Marygrove College
Detroit, MI
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a day of readings and workshops with Edwidge Danticat as part of the college's Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series. The program will be promoted through direct mailings to more than 200,000 students and residents in downtown Detroit.

Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies
Ann Arbor, MI
$58,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support training and technical services to arts and cultural organizations through a series of conferences, regional workshops and peer-to-peer assistance, the association will provide direct services to arts and cultural organizations throughout Michigan's 83 counties.

Michigan Opera Theatre
Detroit, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the workshop of a new American opera Margaret Garner composed by Richard Danielpour with libretto by Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. The purpose of the workshop is to assist the creative evolution of the opera and to generate public enthusiasm and support for the world premiere in October 2004.

Oakland Community College (on behalf of Witness)
Farmington Hills, MI
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the production and promotion of a special issue of Witness magazine on "Aging in America." The issue will feature work of writers such as Carol Bly, Stanley Kunitz, Robin Hemley, Kathleen Norris, George Garrett, Henry Taylor, Maxine Kumin, Joyce Carol Oates and Donald Hall.

University Musical Society
Ann Arbor, MI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Scores, Sonnets and Steps. This series of presentations will explore the connections between literature and the performing arts.

Total Dollars Awarded: $268,000
Total Grants Awarded: 9

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
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Washington, DC 20506