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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.

WASHINGTON

33 Fainting Spells
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of Who Shot Anton Webern? and Spirit Under the Influence, two new works by co-artistic directors Gaelen Hanson and Dayna Hanson. The project will reach an estimated 3,000 people through residency and performance events nationwide.

5th Avenue Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the Seattle premiere of a contemporary musical with accompanying educational activities. Stephen Schwartz and Roger O'Hirson's Tony Award-winning musical Pippin will be directed by David Armstrong and feature new choreography and changes to the book and lyrics.

A Contemporary Theatre, Inc. (ACT, ACT Theatre)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of the classic American text The Women by Clare Boothe Luce.

Allied Arts Foundation
Seattle, WA
$19,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a collaborative redevelopment project for Seattle's Downtown Waterfront neighborhood. More than 100 local design, environmental, business, residential, and civic organizations will participate in the year-long project to create a design plan.

Allied Arts Foundation (on behalf of Lingo dancetheater)
Seattle, WA
$8,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a tour of Relatively Real, an evening-length dance theater work, to San Diego's Sushi Performance and Visual Arts Center and the University of California at Riverside. The tour will include residency activities expected to reach approximately 1,100 people.

Carter Family Puppet Theater (Northwest Puppet Center)
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, based on the play by Henry Fielding. The theater seeks to preserve and foster international traditions of puppetry by presenting theater inspired by world culture, classics, and nearly forgotten treasures.

Center for Religious Humanism (on behalf of Image, A Journal of the Arts & Religion)
Seattle, WA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the production, promotion, and increased writers fees for issues of Image: A Journal of the Arts & Religion. The journal will increase its national reach through an improved Web site and a direct-mail campaign.

Confluences (aka Confluence Project) (Consortium)
Vancouver, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a consortium project for the commission of a landscape installation, Skybowl, by artist/architect Maya Lin. Developed in collaboration with the Nez Perce tribe, Skybowl will feature stories of the tribe and its perspective of the Lewis and Clark journey.

Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of books of poetry. To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of books of poetry. Authors will include John Balaban, Mahmoud Darwish, Hayden Carruth, Jim Harrison , Madeline DeFrees, and Lisa Olstein.

Early Music America, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a national conference, professional development sessions, and an early music marketplace. The conference in Berkeley, California and touring professional development sessions in Madison, Wisconsin, and New York City will offer peer forums, workshops, and in-depth training sessions for musicians and managers in the field of early music.

Empty Space Association (Empty Space Theatre)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commission, development, and world premiere production of a new play written and performed by Lauren Weedman. Tentatively titled The Prison Project, the piece will focus on the lives of women in and around a maximum-security state prison. Audience outreach will focus on women's support groups, shelters, and detention centers.

George, Diana
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Jack Straw Foundation (Jack Straw Productions)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
As many as 20 artists will take part in this residency program to create new audio art works. New works will be presented through meet-the-artist events, gallery installations, a published anthology, radio broadcasts, and educational outreach programs.

Museum of Glass
Tacoma, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the 2006 Visiting Artists Program. The museum will invite up to 18 local, national, and international artists for residencies in its hot shop to work on projects of their own choice.

Northwest Architectural League (aka ARCADE)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support an issue of a quarterly magazine on architecture and design. Targeted to design professionals, artists, community activists, real estate developers, and design enthusiasts, the publication offers critical examination of buildings, products, infrastructure, community, and ideas.

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Deep Focus, a curated film exhibition series. The project will present more than 70 films including director retrospectives and thematic programming in the Northwest Film Forum's two theaters.

Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association
Omak, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2005 Annual Gathering of Basketweavers. The gathering offers an opportunity for indigenous weavers to showcase and sell their basketry, share techniques with one another and the public, and teach Native youth about the cultural significance of basketweaving.

On the Boards (OtB)
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the New Performance Series and the Speaker Series. Plans for related activities include master classes for artists, demonstrations, post-performance question-and-answer sessions, online audio interviews with artists, a performance blog, and workshops.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of works by several choreographers during mixed-repertory programs and full-length programs. The company will conduct field trips for elementary school students through its BRAVO! Ballet Program, which includes lecture-demonstrations of dance and stagecraft as well as an excerpt from the spring production.

Pilchuck Glass School
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a summer artist residency program. Ten distinguished artists whose medium is not glass will be invited to one of the country's preeminent glassworking facilities.

Ruff, Matthew
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Seattle Children's Theatre Association (Seattle Children's Theatre (SCT))
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet, adapted by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. The production will target teen audiences and each performance will be followed by an interactive discussion with the actors.

Seattle Opera
Seattle, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Verdi's Macbeth. Performances of this rarely produced opera will be accompanied by preview talks, lectures, and radio broadcasts. Through Experience Opera, the company will work with teachers to incorporate opera into foreign language, philosophy, literature, and arts curricula and also provide multmedia lectures and presentations at ten schools.

Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of Purgatorio by Ariel Dorfman, a sequel to Dorfamn's award-winning play Death and the Maiden. Students will receive discounted tickets, matinee performances, and in-school residencies.

Seattle Shakespeare Festival (Seattle Shakespeare Company)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a classic play with accompanying educational activities. Award winning playwright and media artist Gregg Loughridge will set Richard III by William Shakespeare in a modern-day corporate headquarters.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Seattle Symphony)
Seattle, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support New Europe: Bridging the 48th Parallel, a festival exploring works by composers from Central and Eastern Europe. The two-week festival concerts and activities are expected to reach 40,000 people, including 14,500 school children.

Spectrum Dance Theater
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work choreographed by artistic director Donald Byrd. The work, based on Béla Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin, will premiere at the Moore Theater in Seattle, Washington.

Velocity Dance Studio (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a consortium project for a national dance touring alliance. Velocity Dance Center will partner with the Southern Theater in Minneapolis to provide performance opportunities for dance companies in Seattle, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia.


Number of Grants: 28          Total Amount: $640,000

 
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