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.

MARYLAND

Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the Baltimore premiere of Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, accompanied by Carl Dreyer's silent film, The Passion of Joan of Arc. Educational activities featuring the chorus and Anonymous 4, an early music vocal ensemble, will precede the performance.

Center Stage Associates Endowment Fund
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$55,000
To support the production of a.m. Sunday by Jerome Hairston.

Everyman Theatre, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$10,000
To support the production of a musical and associated outreach activities and workshops for local schools. Once On This Island will be the Everyman Theatre's first musical production.

Imagination Stage, Inc.
Bethesda, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the commission, development, and production of a new theater work by Kevin Kling based on the Greek myth of Persephone. The play will further the commitment of BAPA's Imagination Stage to accessibility and inclusion by featuring professional actors and dancers with disabilities.

Karlin, Wayne S.
St. Mary's City, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Link Arts, Incorporated
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support the publication of "Musae", an issue of the journal Link. The publication will feature essays on the visual and critical meaning of collections and an audio CD of epic, lyric, and sacred songs from Baltimore.

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Save America's Treasures
$150,000
To support the conservation and stabilization of original recordings in the councils' sound collection. The collection includes examples of the broad geographic and cultural diversity of American music, including Piedmont and Delta blues, Appalachian and Ozark ballad singing, polka, mariachi, and many other forms.

Purpura, Lia
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Round House Theatre
Bethesda, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$20,000
To support a production of Wintertime by Charles L. Mee. Award-winning guest artist Lou Jacob will direct.

Soundprint Media Center, Inc.
Laurel, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the Age of Discovery. Through this international residency program, audio artists will produce documentaries focusing on youth culture.

Twentieth Century Consort
Takoma Park, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support concerts celebrating the 75th birthday of composer George Crumb. Performances will take place at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC.

University of Maryland at College Park
(on behalf of Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center)
College Park, MD
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Voices, a program of residencies and performances. Programs in dance, music, and theater will explore diverse perspectives that share the common theme of giving voice to the art in our everyday lives.

Maryland Total Dollars Awarded: $365,000
Maryland Total Grants Awarded: 12

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