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2004 Grant Awards: State Listings

Creativity/Leadership Initiatives/Literature Fellowships
Services to Arts Organizations & Artists

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

MASSACHUSETTS

American Repertory Theatre Company, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$50,000
To support the development and production of an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream by director/choreographer Martha Clarke.

Arts Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$15,000
To support the development of Tickets Today. The program will provide online ticketing services and training to improve Boston's theater, dance, and music organizations' marketing and sales.

Aspect, Inc. (Zephyr Press)
Brookline, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support the publication and promotion of books by American and Chinese writers. Zephyr Press will market its Chinese titles to Asian bookstores and cultural centers, and add an audio component to its Web site featuring authors reading their work.

Boston Ballet, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$20,000
To support the presentation of Lady of the Camellias, choreographed by Val Caniparoli. The three act ballet will be presented at The Wang Theatre and will have related outreach programs.

Boston Baroque, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support performances of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers during a multi-state tour in celebration of Boston Baroque's 30th anniversary season.

Boston Cyberarts, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$25,000
To support the Boston Cyberarts Artists Residency. The program will foster creative collaborations between technology-based artists and engineers and scientists at New England high technology corporations.

Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Inc. (consortium)
Roslindale, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$15,000
To support a production of Nixon in China by John Adams with libretto by Alice Goodman. In consortium with the Boston Academy of Music, the New England premiere of this opera will feature two fully staged performances at the Emerson Majestic Theater in Boston.

Boston Musica Viva, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the BMV Commissioning Project, an annual program that commissions a new work for each subscription concert in the season. Five composers will be commissioned and their works premiered during the season: Mario Davidovsky, Donald Harris, Bernard Hoffer, Lee Hyla, and Brian Robison.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$75,000
To support premiere performances of four new works by American composers Milton Babbit, John Harbison, Leon Kirchner, and Charles Wuorinen. The orchestra also will perform Elliott Carter's Symphonia, a large-scale orchestral work augmented by a commissioned overture.

Boston University (on behalf of AGNI Magazine)
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$15,000
To support the publication and promotion of issues of AGNI. The magazine will launch a 10,000 piece direct mail campaign to readers of such publications as Poets & Writers and The American Poetry Review.

Celebrity Series of Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$15,000
To support the Boston Marquee Series. The music concerts will pay tribute to Boston-area artists, including performances by the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Borromeo String Quartet, pianist Andrew Rangell, and a three-concert tribute to composer Osvald Golijov.

Celebrity Series of Boston, Inc. (consortium)
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$20,000
To support the presentation of modern and classical companies. The project is in collaboration with The Wang Center for the Performing Arts.

Cultural Images Group, Inc. (Serious Play!)
Northampton, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$8,000
To support the development and premiere production of a new play. Serious Play! Youth Ensemble will collaborate with playwright Alice Tuan on Coastline, a virtual hyper-text theater piece.

Federated Dorchester Neighborhood (on behalf of Yorick's Marionette Theater)
Dorchester, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$10,000
To support the creation of hand-carved marionettes. The 14 marionettes will be used for a production titled The Magic Circus and will be presented in schools and communities throughout New England.

Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc.
Waltham, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$15,000
To support post-production and distribution costs for a documentary by Michal Goldman. Living in the Coops is about the United Workers Cooperative Colony, a utopian housing cooperative in the Bronx built by Jewish immigrant workers in the 1920s.

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

Handel & Haydn Society
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$20,000
To support the presentation of Guiseppi Verdi's La Battaglia di Legnano with orchestra, chorus, and vocal soloists. Two historically informed concerts will be directed by music director Grant Llewellyn and will be enhanced by pre-concert lectures, discussions, and articles by Baroque scholars.

Holland, Flournoy C.
Heath, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$40,000
To support the world premiere production of The Paris Letter by Jon Robin Baitz. This play was the inaugural commission of the Huntington's Stanford Calderwood Fund for New American Plays in 2002.

Iagnemma, Karl
Cambridge, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$20,000
To support an artist residency and exhibition program. The program is designed to allow contemporary artists an opportunity to draw upon the museum's world-renowned historical collection for inspiration and to participate in the museum's School and Community Partnership outreach programs.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Lee, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$70,000
To support residencies and performances of dance companies. Festival 2004 will include work that ranges from ancient traditional forms to contemporary experimental dance.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (on behalf of List Visual Arts Center)
Cambridge, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$25,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of contemporary American artists Mel Ziegler (b. 1956) and Kate Ericson (1955-1995), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is a collaboration with the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College.

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
North Adams, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$28,000
To support Project ARTFAB, with accompanying catalogues and education programs. A visual arts commissioning, residency, and support-for-artists initiative, the project will commission up to six artists to undertake major new works.

New England Foundation for the Arts
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$500,000
To support the National Dance Project in its ninth year. This program provides presenters, dance companies, and audiences across the country with access to contemporary dance.

North Shore Community Arts
Beverly, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$45,000
To support a New Works program in musical theater. During the 2004 season, the program will include the mainstage premieres of two new musicals, Tom Jones and Liberty Smith, as well as workshops, staged readings, and educational initiatives.

Northampton Arts Council
Northampton, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
$10,000
To support Sisters of the South. Blues artists Beverly Guitar Watkins, Mother Pauline Goins, Cora Mae Bryant, Algia Mae Hinton, and Essie Mae Brooks will perform and present workshops as part of the council's performing arts series.

Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, MA
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$25,000
To support efforts to expand an online manual to help museums preserve art collections in both digital and original form. The center will join with the Museum Computer Network and the New England Museum Association in this project.

Ploughshares, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$16,000
To support the publication and national distribution of issues of Ploughshares to 6,000 readers across the country. The Winter 2004-05 and Spring 2005 issue will feature new work by 70 poets and 12 fiction writers.

Praxis, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$60,000
To support Praxis, an architectural journal. Thematic volumes will be produced to inform the architectural writer, builder, academic, and professional by exploring the balance between theory and practice.

President & Fellows of Harvard (on behalf of Harvard University Art Museums)
Cambridge, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$50,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by contemporary, South African-born photographer Gary Schneider (b. 1954), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Over the past 25 years, Schneider has reinterpreted the parameters of the portrait photograph in a diverse series of projects that traverse the photographic medium.

Provincetown International Film
Provincetown, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support the sixth Provincetown International Film Festival. Over 50 independent films will be screened to an estimated audience of 10,000 people.

Slater, Lauren
Somerville, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Williams College
Williamstown, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$30,000
To support the traveling exhibition Screening Architecture, with accompanying educational programming and catalogue. The exhibition will focus on recent work by international artists exploring architectural issues in video and digital animation.

Women's Review, Inc.
Wellesley, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for two special issues of The Women's Review of Books. The special issues will focus on "Women in War and Peace".

World Music, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$15,000
To support the presentation of international, national, and local dance companies. Residency activities will include workshops, master classes, and discussions.

Yard, Inc.
Chilmark, MA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the Bessie Schoenberg Choreographers and Dancers Residency and Company Residency. Emerging choreographers and dance companies will be in residence for four weeks on Martha's Vineyard.

Massachusetts Total Dollars Awarded: $1,392,000
Massachusetts Total Grants Awarded: 37


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