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.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Clemson University
Clemson, SC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support field documentation using the state's network of Community Scholars and master traditional artists brought together through the South Carolina Folk Heritage Awards and the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Initiative. All documentation will be used for broadcast on the Your Day radio program, broadcast on the South Carolina Radio Network.

Clemson University (on behalf of Brooks Center for the Performing Arts)
Clemson, SC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the Women's Arts Festival. Designed to enhance appreciation of women in the arts, the festival will feature a reading by playwright Suzan Lori-Parks, a concert, an exhibition, a panel discussion and a lecture-presentation.

College of Charleston (on behalf of Crazyhorse)
Charleston, SC
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the publication and promotion of issues of Crazyhorse. Since 1960, this literary journal has featured writing from such authors as John Updike, Kynda Hull, and Raymond Carver.

Cox, Wayne
Greenville, SC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the translation from Catalan of selected poems by Piquel Martí i Pol (1929-2003). Cox will collaborate with his wife, Lourdes Manyé i Martí. Born in a small town in Barcelona, Martí i Pol wrote in a modest study overlooking the factory where he worked for half his life. One of the most widely read poets in contemporary Catalan literature, he published eight volumes of poetry, 24 volumes of translations, nine books of prose, several children's books, and song lyrics that appear in more than 40 CDs by well-known Spanish and Catalan musicians. In 1992, he was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence in Fine Arts from the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature in 2000. An associate professor at Anderson College, Wayne Cox translated Vacation Notebook with his wife in 1995. It remains the only volume of Martí i Pol's poetry available in English.

Dry Ridge Productions
Simpsonville, SC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Traditional Music Series. The program is designed to showcase local traditional musicians at the AcousticSeen Theatre in downtown Greenville, and Folk Heritage Awards winners from North and South Carolina at local festivals.

Fox, Leonard
Charleston, SC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the translation from Malagasy of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo's Almost Dreams (1934), Translated from the Night (1935), and from French of his Old Songs from the Imerina Lands, a collection of translations and adaptations of traditional Malagasy oral poetry (published posthumously, 1939). Considered the most important 20th-century poet of Madagascar, Rabearivelo wrote in both Malagasy and French. He was deeply influenced by the hainteny tradition, a complex form of oral poetry considered the quintessential expression of traditional Malagasy creativity. Almost Dreams and Translated from the Night represent a merging of hainteny with French literary genres. Despite his devotion to the traditional arts of his homeland, Rabearivelo felt cut off from a literary life of France and suffered a period of severe depression after his daughter's death. He committed suicide in 1937 before his 40th birthday.

Leonard Fox works as an independent translator for publishers and other private clients throughout the U.S. His translations include Hainteny: The Traditional Poetry of Madagascar, the first study in English of Malagasy traditional poetry.

Spoleto Festival USA
Charleston, SC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting 
To support a series of performances during the 2005 festival season. Spoleto Festival USA will produce and present a range of multidisciplinary work, juxtaposing traditional repertoire with the new, performed by both established and emerging artists.

Spoleto Festival USA (consortium)
Charleston, SC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design 
To support a consortium project for a team of designers and artists to develop a plan for Charleston's Memminger district. Clemson University's Graduate Center in Historic Preservation will work with the design team to reclaim the district as a public and civic space for community use.

University of South Carolina at Columbia (on behalf of McKissick Museum)
Columbia, SC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the preservation of documentary videos of filmmaker Stan Woodward. As an independent video artist, Woodward has documented foodways traditions, often in areas bypassed by economic development.

SOUTH CAROLINA total grants: 9
SOUTH CAROLINA total dollars: $155,000

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