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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.

WISCONSIN

First Stage Milwaukee, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support the production of a musical for school and family audiences. Adapted from a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, Honk! will be produced in collaboration with the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Florentine Opera Company, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support the commissioning and development of a new chamber opera by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom and librettist Arnold Weinstein. The new work will be based on Robert Sherwood's Pulitzer prize-winning play Idiot's Delight, a tragicomedy set in an Austrian resort in 1936.

Folklore Village Farm, Inc.
Dodgeville, WI
$23,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the 2005 Midwest Folklife Festival. The festival will feature folk and ethnic artists from Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois in concerts, demonstrations, and narrative stage presentations.

Madison Opera, Inc.
Madison, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support a production of Jake Heggie's opera The End of the Affair. Based on the Graham Greene novel, the opera will be adapted for performances in the newly opened Overture Hall.

Madison Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Madison, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the presentation of the 2005 Fall Festival of the Future. The festival will feature readings and workshop productions of new plays.

Milwaukee Art Museum, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support a touring exhibition titled Sleight of Hand: Virtuosity and Transformation in Art Today, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition explores the role of craftsmanship in contemporary art.

Opera for the Young, Inc.
Madison, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support a multi-state tour of Giaocchino Rossini's The Barber of Seville, adapted for children by composer Jeffrey Sykes and Artistic Director Diane Garton Edie. The in-school presentations will reach children in kindergarten through sixth grades throughout Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa.

Present Music, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support performances exploring the influence of new concert music from Latin America, the Middle East/Central Asia, and China on American music. The ensemble will perform repertoire by composers originally from each of these regions, and the concerts will be held in Madison, Milwaukee, and Whitewater, Wisconsin, in spring 2005.

University of Wisconsin at Madison (on behalf of Elvehjem Museum of Art)
Madison, WI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the touring exhibition Conjunction and Collaboration in Edo Print Culture, 1770-1870: Utugawa School Prints from the Van Vleck Collection, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will focus on the Elvehjem's collection of works from the Utagawa school of printmakers and trace the development of the school from its beginnings.

Wisconsin Arts Board (consortium)
Madison, WI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support It Is Never Too Late to Learn at the second annual conference on Arts, Curriculum, and Community. In collaoration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the conference will include nationally known keynote speakers, workshops on quilting, ethnic storytelling, and a curriculum guide.

WISCONSIN total grants: 10
WISCONSIN total dollars: $173,000


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