FY 2006 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

NEW JERSEY

George Street Playhouse, Inc.
New Brunswick, NJ
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Afghan Women, a new play by Emmy Award-winning playwright William Mastrosimone. Patterned after Euripides' The Trojan Women, the play will use a Greek chorus, Afghan music, and poetry to convey the story of an Afghan American woman returning to her native country as a modern American doctor.

International Sculpture Center, Inc. (Sculpture Magazine)
Hamilton, NJ
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support production of Sculpture magazine and an anniversary publication, The Sculpture Reader. Solicited articles will focus on work of current artists, events, and public art projects.

McCarter Theatre Company (McCarter Theatre Center)
Princeton, NJ
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a world premiere play, Ridiculous Fraud, by Beth Henley. The play portrays the antics of New Orleans brothers following their father's imprisonment for fraud. Educational activities will include study guides, residencies, and master classes.

Montclair State University Foundation, Inc.
Upper Montclair, NJ
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of performances during the Arts and Cultural Programming season. Featured artists will include writer/director/choreographer Charles Moulton, the Kretakor Theatre of Hungary, German director/composer Heiner Goebbels, and the team of composer David Lang and writer Mac Wellman.

National Poetry Series, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support evaluation fees, promotional expenses, and publication costs for poetry volumes selected from the National Poetry Series Open Competition. Chosen by distinguished poets, the winning manuscripts will be published by HarperCollins Publishers, Verse Press, Coffee House Press, the University of Illinois Press, and Viking Penguin.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO)
Newark, NJ
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The Many Faces of Mozart, a winter festival celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. Statewide concerts will be performed in Newark, New Brunswick, Trenton, and Princeton.

Passage Theatre Company, Inc.
Trenton, NJ
$6,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of Second Line, a new play by Seret Scott. The playwright will be in residence during the production process to continue refining the script, which portrays a love story that looks back through the lens of history at the Civil Rights movement.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (on behalf of Center for Innovative Print and Paper)
New Brunswick, NJ
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support artists residency opportunities in printmaking. The four resident artists will present lectures to students and the public, and their works will be exhibited at Rutgers University.

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium (aka Black Maria Film and Video Festival)
Jersey City, NJ
$22,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. More than 60 organizations host the festival each year, which draws more than 700 entries nationwide.

Westfield Symphony
Westfield, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the New Colossus Collaborative. Five composers will develop a single orchestral work based on Emma Lazarus's poem, "The Colossus," which graces the foot of the Statue of Liberty. The project will provide secondary schools in Central New Jersey with teacher guides, score excerpts, and pre-concert school visits by the composers.

Wheaton Village, Inc. (on behalf of Creative Glass Center)
Millville, NJ
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency program for emerging and mid-career glass artists. Artists will be provided with housing, a stipend, studio facilities, and technical assistance to work in glass.

Number of Grants: 11          Total Amount: $230,500

 
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