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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.

TEXAS

Alley Theatre
Houston, TX
$28,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of the play, After the Fall, by Arthur Miller, to be directed by Artistic Director Greg Boyd. The production will feature post-show discussions, and education and community outreach activities.

Art House at the Jones Center
Austin, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support Art on Tour, a touring exhibition program in Texas. Three exhibitions with accompanying catalogues will be organized - two juried shows highlighting new American talent, and one featuring contemporary artists whose work addresses their relationship to religious practice, ideology, and iconography.

ArtLies
Houston, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support the reviews section of ArtLies, a quarterly publication that covers the visual arts in Texas. ArtLies seeks to expand its news coverage and critical dialogue.

ArtPace, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support residencies for artists to create new work. Participating artists will be provided with housing, work space, technical assistance, transportation costs, and a stipend for a two-month residency.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the presentation of a curated film and video series. More than 55 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 20,000 people.

Austin Lyric Opera
Austin, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support a production of Richard Strauss's Elektra and a symposium series in collaboration with area universities. The University of Texas Humanities Institute will host scholar- and artist-led discussions of the work.

Ballet Austin, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation of a full-length work by choreographer and artistic director Stephen Mills. The Holocaust and Humanity Project will involve a partnership between Ballet Austin, the University of Texas at Austin, the Houston Holocaust Museum, and the Warren Foundation.

Cassells, Cyrus
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.  

City of Austin, Texas
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies 
To support a community cultural planning process, including an initial assessment and the development of a culminating action plan. The inclusive, community-wide planning process will include both nonprofit and commercial arts organizations in the development of a plan to more effectively support local nonprofit art resources.

Crippen, Aaron
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the translation from Chinese of selected poems by Gu Cheng (1956-1993). Gu Cheng is one of the most important voices to emerge from China's Cultural Revolution. As a boy, he witnessed scenes of Beijing street violence including the ransacking of his home and confiscation of his family's books. He and his family were sent to the countryside to raise pigs; there he began to write poetry. He arrived on the literary scene during the Democracy Wall movement of 1979, publishing with Communist China's first underground magazine, Today. Idolized by Chinese youth, Gu Cheng was always viewed with suspicion by the Chinese government. He took up permanent residence in New Zealand in 1987, and committed suicide there in 1993.

Currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Houston, Aaron Crippen has published numerous translations in such journals as Northwest Quarterly, Oklahoma Review, Nimrod, Mid-American Review, and Manoa.

Da Camera Society of Texas, Inc.
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support concerts celebrating Mozart's 250th birthday. A series of concerts and lectures is planned that will explore the breadth of Mozart's presence and influence on visual artists, poets, and composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Dallas, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of work by choreographers Christopher Huggins and Kevin Wynn. The works will premiere at the Majestic Theater in Dallas.

Dallas Symphony Association, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support performances of works by Hannibal Lokumbe. Plans include a performance of African Portraits performed at the Potter's House Church and Music Has No Walls performed for prison inmates.

Dance Umbrella
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support presentation of dance events. Discover Dance will involve dance presentations and educational activities.

Deep Ellum Theatre Group
Dallas, TX
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support a consortium project to produce a series of radio plays by experimental playwrights. In conjunction with the Video Association of Dallas, the theater will commission and produce Radio Undermain, which will be broadcast by NPR affiliate KERA 90.1.

DiverseWorks, Inc.
Houston, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the commissioning and presentation of new works. The project will include visual arts exhibitions, performances, artist residencies, and educational activities.

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the Techno-Arte series of dance and theater performances and a visual art exhibit. The series will focus on media and technology projects that integrate Latino traditional art forms.

Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Fine Arts, Inc.
Houston, TX
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the publication and promotion of issues of Gulf Coast. The journal will enhance its Web site and sponsor a Houston-based reading series for local emerging writers and a small press and journal book fair.

Houston Ballet Foundation
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and world premiere of a new work by artistic director and choreographer Stanton Welch. The work will be performed at the Wortham Theater Center in Houston, TX.

Houston Chamber Choir
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support performances and a national symposium in celebration of the 500th birthday of English renaissance composer Thomas Tallis. Plans include performances of the 40-part Spem in Alium, and master classes by noted scholars.

Houston Friends of Music
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support chamber music presentations and outreach activities. Performances and master classes are planned by the Daedalus Quartet and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.

Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc.
Houston, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support Discover Opera: Community Connections Initiative, Phase II. The multi-component project aims to educate and nurture new audiences.

Houston Symphony Society
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the continuation of the Concerto Commissioning Project. Composer Richard Lavenda will create a clarinet concerto that will premiere in May 2005.

International Accordion Festival
San Antonio, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the 5th Annual International Accordion Festival. The festival is designed to celebrate the instrument's local identity and global reach; preserve and present accordion music of ethnic, regional, and national cultures; and educate audiences about accordian-based traditions.

Jump-Start Performance Company
San Antonio, TX
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the creation, development, and production of Voice Soup (working title). This ensemble-created interdisciplinary performance work will spring from educational outreach activities with youth from two local social service organziations.

Kitchen Dog Theater Company
Dallas, TX
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the 2005 New Works Festival. The festival will feature a mainstage production of a new American play, staged readings of new plays, and staged readings of new works by young writers through the PUP (Playwrights Under Progress) Fest.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the touring exhibition The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the role of the American West in the development of American modernist art.

Opera Company, Inc.
El Paso, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support an educational outreach program including Opera on Wheels, Artists in the Schools, and Youth Night at the Opera. Activities will include mini-opera productions, classroom workshops, community recitals, and accessibility to mainstage productions for students in underserved areas of Texas, New Mexico, and Juarez, Mexico.

Peirce, Kathleen
Wimberley, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.  

Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Folklore of Loíza music and dance workshops celebrating the West African heritage of this community in Puerto Rico. The workshops, led by William Cepada will culminate in a series of concerts.

SWAMP (Southwestern Alternate Media Projects, Inc.)
Houston, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the production and statewide distribution of The Territory. As the longest running showcase of media art in the United States, the public television series presents independent film and video works to more than 12 million viewers throughout Texas.

Texas Folklife Resources (consortium)
Austin, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Community Residence Program. In collabortion with the Texas Commission on the Arts, the project will consist of residencies in underserved towns with populations of fewer than 10,000 people.

University of Houston (on behalf of Arte Público Press)
Houston, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the publication and promotion of Spanish language editions of U.S. Latino literature for young adults. The press will sponsor author readings and distribute teacher guides that include background information, author biographies, analyses of major themes, and bibliographies of further readings.

Van Cliburn Foundation, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support a commissioning project for new piano works. Works selected by finalists of the Van Cliburn Competition will be premiered during the semifinal round of the competition in Fort Worth.

Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the 19th Dallas Video Festival. The event will present work in all genres ranging from documentary to new video art.

Visions In Rhythm
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support a tap festival. The Soul to Sole Festival will include performances and a wide range of education and outreach activities. These include master classes and workshops, lecture demonstrations, and faculty concerts with live jazz music.

TEXAS total grants: 36
TEXAS total dollars: $806,000


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