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.

VERMONT

Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd.
Burlington, VT
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting 
To support the commissioning and presentation of new and existing works. Projects will include a collaboration between choreographer Ron Brown and singer/composer Nnenna Freelon, Big Dance Theatre, choreographer Cathy Weis, and theater companies Mabou Mines and Penumbra Theatre.

Friends of Writers, Inc. (on behalf of Four Way Books)
Marshfield, VT
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the publication and promotion of volumes of poetry, as well as author readings. Scheduled authors include Lee Briccetti, Pablo Medina, Cammy Thomas, and Dan Tobin.

Sandglass Center for Puppetry and Theater Research
Putney, VT
$7,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the Voices of Community series. The series will present new theater works by solo theater artists.

Tupelo Press, Inc.
Dorset, VT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry. The press will publish the work of Vietnamese-American poets and arrange reading tours for veterans groups and other communities with a strong Vietnamese presence.

VERMONT total grants: 4
VERMONT total dollars: $79,500

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506