FY 2005 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

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

ALASKA

Anchorage Concert Association, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the presentation of dance companies and education and outreach activities. The companies to be presented include Australian Dance Theatre, Jose Limon Dance Company, and Grupo Corpo Brazilian Dance Company.

Juneau Jazz & Classics, Inc.
Juneau, AK
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the Juneau Jazz & Classics festival. Approximately 30 musicians will be presented during the nine-day festival in May 2005.

Perseverance Theatre, Inc.
Douglas, AK
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support world premiere productions of a chamber musical and a new play, part of a festival of emergent theater works. The Long Season depicts the lives of Filipino immigrants working in salmon canneries in 1930s Alaska. The play Columbinus illuminates the realities of adolescent culture and behavior.

ALASKA total grants: 3
ALASKA total dollars: $55,000

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