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FY 2010 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Prose)

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

MASSACHUSETTS

3rd EyE Youth Empowerment, Inc.
New Bedford, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the production and promotion of a spoken word performance and the creation of a mural as part of 11th annual Open Community Hip-Hop Festival. These activities will feature musical artist Tem Blessed and graffiti artist and muralist Ryan Mehigan.

Actors' Shakespeare Project
Somerville, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a co-production of William Shakespeare's tragedy Timon of Athens with Shakespeare & Company of Lenox, Massachusetts, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. The play will be directed by Bill Barclay, a resident member of both companies.

American Repertory Theatre (Consortium)
Cambridge, MA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the first extended U.S. run of the ensemble theater work Gatz. In collaboration with Elevator Repair Service, Artistic Director John Collins will direct the company's seven-hour theatrical presentation of the entire text of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

American Repertory Theatre
Cambridge, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Paradise Lost by Clifford Odets to be directed by Daniel Fish, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. The play will be staged in the Loeb Drama Center as part of Diane Paulus's inaugural season as the new artistic director.

Amherst College (aka Folger Shakespeare Library) (Consortium)
Amherst, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of Orestes: A Sly and Caustic Romp, adapted by Anne Washburn from the play by Euripides. Washington, DC's Folger Theatre, in partnership with Two River Theater Company, will debut Orestes, which will then travel to Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey.

Arts Extension Institute, Inc.
HADLEY, MA
$42,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the LAA Fundamentals Training Series, a professional development series for local arts agency staff. The series will include online and face-to-face training sessions, as well as the use of workbooks specifically developed for this training.

Aspect, Inc. (aka Zephyr Press)
Brookline, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of new bilingual books of poetry by Zephyr Press. Proposed works will be translated into English from Chinese, Polish, and Hebrew.

Barrington Stage Company Inc.
Pittsfield, MA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the Musical Theatre Lab. The program provides emerging composers, lyricists, and book writers the opportunity to develop new works of musical theater in a supportive environment with an experienced management team.

Bauer, Douglas
Boston, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Beach-Ferrara, Jasmine
Jamaica Plain, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Berklee College of Music, Inc. (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival in Boston. In collaboration with Jazz Boston, Inc., the festival programming will highlight New Orleans' role as the incubator of jazz and celebrate the city's diversity as reflected in music, foods and crafts, and through the participants.

Boston Academy of Music (aka Opera Boston)
Boston, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support Opera Boston's world premiere of Madame White Snake, by composer Zhou Long and librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs. The Chinese community specifically will be targeted through educational and outreach activities related to the production.

Boston Ballet, Inc.
Boston, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Apollo, choreographed by George Balanchine, during the company's first season at the Boston Opera House. The accompanying Stravinsky score will be performed live by the Boston Ballet Orchestra under music director Jonathan McPhee.

Boston Critic, Inc. (aka Boston Review)
Somerville, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the inclusion of fiction and poetry in the general interest magazine Boston Review. Fiction selections will be chosen by novelist and editor Junot Díaz.

Boston Lyric Opera Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of The Turn of the Screw, by Benjamin Britten. Performances will be accompanied by community events through partnerships with area Boston cultural institutions.

Boston Musica Viva, Inc.
Somerville, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support commissions, premiere performances, performances of 20th-century works, and related educational activities. Three commissions of new works by composers Richard Cornell, Lei Liang, and Curtis Hughes will be premiered, one in each of three concerts along with other contemporary works.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (on behalf of Tanglewood Music Center)
Boston, MA
$54,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Tanglewood Music Center. The 70th anniversary festival will honor the resident composers who have led composition activities for the festival over the past seven decades.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Boston, MA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support premiere performances of orchestral works and related educational activities. Three works by composers Elliott Carter, John Harbison, and Peter Lieberson will be premiered in three programs under the direction of Music Director James Levine.

Boston University (on behalf of AGNI Magazine)
Boston, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of the literary journal, AGNI. The journal will automate its website, continue a direct-mail campaign, and place advertisements in a national publication.

Cantata Singers, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an exploration of the choral music of German Baroque composer Heinrich Schutz with related educational activities. His music will be juxtaposed with works by Bach, Harbison, Stravinsky, Durufle, Distler, Schoenberg, and Poulenc.

College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Pilgrimage and Faith: Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam, with accompanying education programs. The Cantor Gallery exhibition will explore the commonalities of religious pilgrimage shared by these three global religions and the role the arts play in this shared tradition.

Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern Massachusetts
New Bedford, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2010 Working Waterfront Festival. The event will celebrate the occupational culture and artistic traditions of New England's commercial fishing community and other maritime occupations.

Concord Academy (on behalf of Summer Stages Dance)
Concord, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Summer Stage Dance Festival's Meet-the-Artist Performance Series. In existence since 1999, the festival has helped to revitalize the Boston dance community by presenting dance artists of high caliber from around the United States.

Danforth Museum Corporation
Framingham, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Bridges Across Cultures, an exhibition of works by Giles Laroche and associated outreach activities. A published author and illustrator of children's books, Laroche creates intricate cut paper illustrations that celebrate architecture from around the world.

Emerson College (on behalf of Ploughshares)
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of Ploughshares. The editorial policy of Ploughshares stipulates that each issue be guest-edited by a writer who is given editorial autonomy to apply his or her aesthetic vision.

Emmanuel Music, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support presentations of the works of composers Joseph Haydn and Arnold Schoenberg with related educational activities. Solo piano and orchestral music will be presented highlighting the two Viennese composers.

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc.
Provincetown, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support the Winter Fellowship Program for Emerging Artists and Writers. The program will provide living accommodations, studios, and monthly stipends to selected poets, fiction writers, and visual artists.

Fund for Boston Neighborhoods, Inc.
Boston, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Arts for All: Summer in the City. The series of festivals will include free presentations in the performing and visual arts at various locations throughout the city.

Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center
Gloucester, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Seascape, an arts festival exploring the cultural impact of the fishing industry on the Gloucester community. Workshops will include Setting Stories to Music, taught by storyteller Jay O'Callahan, and Origins of Fishing Songs by educator David Coffin. A concert will feature shanty singers the Johnson Girls, balladeers Dan and Bonnie Milner, flutist Strong Eagle Daly, and percussionist Ken Sweeney.

Greater Lowell Regatta Festival Charitable Foundation
Lowell, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Lowell Folk Festival. The annual festival continues to show the extraordinary quality of ethnic America, echoing the population of Lowell on its stages as well as in its craft areas and foodways.

Handel & Haydn Society
Boston, MA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Mozart in Vienna, a concert program with related educational activities. The program will combine Mozart's Mass in C Minor with works by other Viennese composers including Caldara and Gluck.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Today's Artists, Tomorrow's Works new play development program. The program will consist of the Huntington Playwriting Fellows program and the Breaking Ground Festival of new play readings.

Indian Hill Arts Inc. (aka Indian Hill Music)
Littleton, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Of Peace and Harmony concert featuring flutist R. Carlos Nakai. Related activities will include in-school performances, an exhibit of American Indian art, workshops celebrating American Indian folk arts, and pre- and post-concert discussions.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Becket, MA
$90,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support residencies and performances of dance companies. The project will include a Creative Development Residency, presentation of national and international dance companies, and audience engagement and educational programs.

Madison Park Development Corporation
Roxbury, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Roxbury Film Festival, produced in partnership with the Color of Film Collaborative. Related activities will include panel discussions, acting workshops, an outdoor film screening, and a day of activities featuring films for youth.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (on behalf of List Visual Arts Center)
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Bahamian-born, New York-based artist Tavares Strachan (b. 1979), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The List Visual Arts Center exhibition will include newly commissioned and existing works from the artist's current ongoing series titled The Orthostatic Tolerance, which deals with sea and space exploration.

National Center for Jewish Film, Inc.
Waltham, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the preservation and restoration of the Yiddish-language film Yiddle With His Fiddle. This musical comedy, made in 1936 by Joseph Green and Jan Nowina-Przybylski, stars Molly Picon as a girl who disguises herself as a boy in order to travel the countryside with her father as a fiddling duo.

Orion Society
Great Barrington, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support feature-length pieces of literary prose in Orion magazine. A bi-monthly literary and visual arts journal devoted to exploring the relationship between people and the natural world, the magazine currently has 20,000 subscribers.

Peabody Essex Museum, Inc.
Salem, MA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition The Emperor's Private Paradise. The exhibition will consist of works drawn from the Chinese Emperor Qianlong's (1737-1796) retirement garden.

Provincetown Arts Press, Inc.
Provincetown, MA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support publication of the 25th anniversary issue of Provincetown Arts. The press will improve its website, increase artist fees, and publish a companion anthology of previously published work.

Puppet Showplace, Inc.
Brookline, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances by puppet troupes for children in low-income families. Companies to be presented may include Crabgrass Puppet Theatre, Dream Tales Puppets, Perry Alley Theatre, Pumpernickel Puppets, Spring Valley Puppet Theater, and Tanglewood Marionettes.

Rose Metal Press, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of works in hybrid genres. Scheduled books include a book of essays and poems exploring the craft of writing prose poetry, a chapbook of short short stories, and a book of prose poetry.

Sanow, Anne
Provincetown, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Smith College (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Northampton, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the commissioning of a site-specific installation piece by Cuban-born, Boston-based artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (b. 1959). Titled Sugar, the new work will explore the artist's family and ancestral ties to the sugar industry in Cuba.

Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Picasso/Degas, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is being organized in association with the Museu Picasso in Barcelona.

Thompson, Christina
Lincoln, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Tufts University
Medford, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Renovating Walden, a commissioned project by J. Morgan Puett & Mark Dion.

Tupelo Press, Inc.
North Adams, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of new collections of poetry and international literature. Proposed authors include Gary Soto, Ellen Doré Watson, Michael Chitwood, Megan Snyder-Camp, Rebecca Dunham, and Stacey Waite.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on behalf of Jubilat)
Amherst, MA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the redesign of Jubilat's website and to print and promote issues.Recent contributors to the journal include Daisy Fried, Terrance Hayes, Cathy Park Hong, Karen Volkman, and Rosemary Waldrop.

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
Wellfleet, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Wellfleet Cultural Tourism Initiative, which will include a website, events calendar, and a new logo design. Partner entities will include the Town of Wellfleet, Provincetown International Film Festival, Wellfleet Art Galleries Association, Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, Wellfleet Oyster Fest, and the Cape Cod Modern House Trust.

Whole Children, Inc.
Hadley, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a performance by the Inclusive Community Choir, comprised of youth with and without physical, cognitive, or developmental disabilities. The choir will rehearse for several months before presenting a collaborative concert with musician Dan Zanes.

Wickersham, Joan
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

World Music, Inc. (aka World Music/CRASHarts)
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of contemporary dance companies. Residency activities will include performances, master classes for dancers, workshops, discussions, and outreach activities at local schools.

Yard, Inc.
Chilmark, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Bessie Schonberg Choreographers and Dancers Residency and a residency for dance companies. The residencies provide a supportive environment for the creation and premiere of new work.

Zeiterion Theatre, Inc. (aka The Z)
New Bedford, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support The Z's ArtsBridge Program. Performing artists will participate in a series of activities focused on cultural diversity and community involvement.


Number of Grants: 55          Total Amount: $1,308,500

 
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