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FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works I | 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. (aka 3rd EyE Unlimited)
New Bedford, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the 3rd EyE Open Festival. The 13th annual festival will include the creation of a mural led by painter Percy Fortini-Wright and a performance featuring musical artist Tem Blessed and dance team Phunk Phenomenon, for the benefit of an audience drawn from throughout southeastern Massachusetts.

American Repertory Theatre (aka A.R.T.)
Cambridge, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the world premiere production of Futurity: A Musical by The Lisps, an interdisciplinary musical theater project by indie rock band The Lisps, co-written by playwright Molly Rice, and directed by Sarah Benson. The piece will fuse traditional American folk music, Brechtian choral elements, and The Lisps' eccentric indie-rock to tell the story of a young Union Soldier in the Civil War who is an aspiring inventor and science fiction visionary.

Arts Company, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the creation of the Artists' Prospectus for the Nation, a multi-media artwork and publication with related digital and Web-based components. The Prospectus will include new work by 12 artists known for their collaborative, socially-engaged projects who will be commissioned to create work around themes of nature, health, justice, and consumption; artists will receive a stipend and materials budget and research, curatorial, and technical support.

Boston Ballet
Boston, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support performances of Jerome Robbins' 1944 ballet, Fancy Free, at the Boston Opera House. The ballet will be accompanied by the Leonard Bernstein score, performed live by the Boston Ballet Orchestra.

Boston Children's Chorus, Inc.
Boston, MA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Seeds to Song Project. Young singers are trained year-round in choral music and perform in Concert Choir, Premier Choir, Young Men's Ensemble and the Choral Union, designed for singers with no previous music theory training.

Boston Dance Alliance
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Behind the Scenes: In Front of the Curtain, a project to help dance companies engage new dance audiences. The project will involve a creative retreat for two choreographers and their dancers, with additional funding to pay dancers during the rehearsal period; individual coaching on marketing and fundraising; and video workshops for members and non-Boston Dance Alliance members.

Boston Jewish Film Festival, Inc.
West Newton, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 24th Boston Jewish Film Festival. Approximately 50 feature length, short, and documentary films will be screened.

Boston Lyric Opera Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$22,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the adaption and remounting of the comic opera The Inspector by composer John Musto and librettist Mark Campbell, including outreach activities. Based on the play The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol, this production will expand the physical and orchestral elements, working with the original creative team to make the work accessible for larger opera houses.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (on behalf of Tanglewood Music Center)
Boston, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Tanglewood Music Center. The five-day festival, directed by composers John Harbison and Oliver Knussen, will feature chamber music and orchestral performances by resident musicians and guest artists.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Boston, MA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of the world premiere of composer John Harbison's Symphony No. 6 and other new music performances with related educational activities. Works to be performed include the premiere of Harbison's new work conducted by David Zinman, Mark-Anthony Turnage's From the Wreckage (a trumpet concerto) conducted by Andris Nelsons, and Esa-Pekka Salonen's Violin Concerto conducted by the composer.

Boston University
Boston, MA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Orchestra and Young Artists Wind Ensemble programs. The programs provide an intense summer music training experience for students, including opportunities to attend professional performances and to interact closely with master artists-in-residence throughout the summer.

Boston University (on behalf of AGNI Magazine)
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of the literary journal AGNI.

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Inc.
Boston, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Intensive Community Program, a string instrument program. Targeting inner-city youth, the program offers a two-week summer music workshop, followed by weekly music lessons, ensemble classes, and performance opportunities during the school year.

Center for Human Development
Springfield, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the production of Hablando Con Dolores, a one-act play by playwright Dee O'Connor. The work, Talking with Dolores, examines the issue of elder depression and will be produced in Spanish for presentation to elder Latino audiences in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern Massachusetts
New Bedford, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Working Waterfront Festival. The festival will present the occupational culture of commercial fishing and other port industries through traditional music, dance, storytelling, poetry, foodways presentations, and demonstrations and contests of occupational skills.

DeCordova & Dana Museum & Park (aka deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum)
Lincoln, MA
$26,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Work Out, an exhibition of temporary outdoor art works to be installed on the museum's grounds. California-based artist collaborative Futurefarmers; Los Angeles-based artist and architect Fritz Haeg; Providence-based conceptual artist, Daniel Peltz; Chicago-based environmental art activist Dan Peterman; and Boston-based social performance and video artist Andi Sutton will be commissioned to create the art works to be integrated on the Museum's grounds.

Emerson College (on behalf of Ploughshares)
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of the literary journal Ploughshares. The editorial policy of Ploughshares stipulates that each issue be guest-edited by a writer who is given autonomy to apply his or her aesthetic vision; planned guest editors include Nick Flynn and Patricia Hampl.

Emerson College
Boston, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage to foster the creation of new work by offering residencies, rehearsal space, production facilities and support, and performance space on the campus of Emerson College in Boston. ArtsEmerson intends to work with the following ensembles: The Civilians, The Foundry Theatre, Elevator Repair Service, Theatre of the Emerging American Movement, and Phantom Limb Company.

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc.
Provincetown, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support the Fellowship Program for Emerging Artists and Writers. The program will provide living accommodations, studios, and monthly stipends to 20 poets, fiction writers, and visual artists.

Haigh, Jennifer
Hull, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Handel & Haydn Society
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion and related educational activities.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Breaking Ground/HPF Play Lab. The project will provide a three-week writing and performance retreat for four playwrights and 16 actors to collaborate and focus on artist-driven play development.

Indian Hill Arts Inc. (aka Indian Hill Music Center)
Littleton, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Guitar Festival featuring Eliot Fisk and related outreach performances. In addition to the festival, Fisk and fellow guitarist Roberto Rios will perform at the Perkins School for the Blind and the Franklin Perkins School, an organization for youth with a range of psychiatric, social, and emotional issues.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Becket, MA
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Creative Development Residency Program and audience engagement through the Virtual Pillow, an electronic venue for producing online content from the Jacob's Pillow Archives. Artists in residence will include Circa (Australia), Tero Saarinen Company (Finland), Kafig (France), Batsheva (Israel), and U.S. artists Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Martha Graham Dance Company.

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc. (aka MASS MoCA)
North Adams, MA
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support development of a catalogue and public programming for the Cartographer's Conundrum, an exhibition of new work by Sanford Biggers (b. 1970). The exhibition will consist of installations representing the artist's years-long investigation of his cousin, the 20th-century African American artist and scholar John Biggers (1924-2001).

Matson, Suzanne
Newton, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Murray, Sabina
Amherst, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Orion Society (aka Orion Magazine)
Great Barrington, MA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support feature-length pieces of literary prose in Orion magazine. Orion is a bi-monthly literary and visual arts journal devoted to exploring the relationship between people and the natural world.

Partners for Youth with Disabilities, Inc.
Boston, MA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Access to Theatre, a program that provides year-round after-school and summer performing arts programs, workshops, special events, classes, and leadership opportunities for youth with and without disabilities. Guest and resident artists with and without disabilities teach theatrical improvisation, acting techniques, expressive movement, instrumental and vocal music, and costume and prop design to youth.

Project STEP, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Preparatory Division and Pre-College Division string instrument programs. Program components include private strings lessons, theory classes, piano classes, master classes, chamber music, and orchestra participation, as well as attendance at music camps.

Provincetown International Film Festival
Provincetown, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2012 Provincetown International Film Festival. Now in its 13th year, the festival presents more than 60 American independent films, documentaries, shorts, and international work.

Raw Art Works, Inc.
Lynn, MA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Real to Reel Film School. Young filmmakers will learn to use technology including cameras, film editing, lighting, and sound systems, and will develop skills in self-efficacy, leadership, and cooperation.

Silk Road Project, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Workshop for New Silk Road Project Commissions, under the artistic direction of Yo-Yo Ma. The new works, written for both Western and non-Western instrumentation, will be developed during workshops with composers David Bruce, Vijay Iyer, Glenn Kotche, and Kojiro Umezaki.

Silver Screen Film Society
Vineyard Haven, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival. Activities will include an animated shorts program hosted by animator Bill Plympton and a forum with island filmmakers.

Sociedad Latina
Roxbury, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Viva Nuestra Musica!, a celebration of Latino Heritage Month. The organization will collaborate with the Berklee College of Music to present artists including the Boston Latin Band, Fiesta del Norte, Mango Blue, and Obbini Tumbao.

Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition, Unearthed: Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Northern China. The exhibition will include more than 85 objects including some recently excavated -- drawn from provincial museums and archaeological institutes in cities along the route of an expedition by the museum's founder, Robert Sterling Clark, more than 100 years ago.

Theatre Espresso, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support presentations of American Tapestry: Immigrant Children of the Bread and Roses Strike by Wendy Lement, Derek Nelson, and Megan Cooper. In commemoration of the centennial of the strike, every Lawrence Public Schools eighth grader will have the opportunity to attend the play at the Lawrence Heritage State Park Visitors Center.

Tupelo Press, Inc.
North Adams, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of new fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. The press will publish books by Alan Michael Parker, CM Burroughs, Lee Upton, James Friel, and Rusty Morrison.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on behalf of Jubilat)
Amherst, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of the journal Jubilat. The journal's marketing strategy will include a direct mail campaign, print and online advertisements, and outreach to key bookstores not currently carrying the magazine.

Zeiterion Theatre, Inc. (aka The Z)
New Bedford, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support The Z's ArtsBridge Program. Two distinct components within the ArtsBridge Program will be supported: a series of performances and interactive events focusing on past and current US military endeavors featuring groups such as LA Theatreworks, American Vicarious Theatre, and the New Bedford Symphony; a residency, in-school workshops, and performance by Dayton Contemporary Dance Company along with a local interracial, multigenerational choir.


Number of Grants: 40          Total Amount: $1,060,500

 
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