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FY 2013 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works I | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Poetry)

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

CONNECTICUT

Artists Collective, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the presentation of the Houston-based Soul Street Dance Company in performance and workshops. Soul Street Dance, a five-member ensemble, performs different styles of street dance to varied music genres including a mix of hip-hop and classical.

Artspace, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Toonskin, a group exhibition of culturally diverse artists who contemplate the essence of blackness in animation, comic books, and illustrated narratives. Organized by curator Kenya Robinson, the exhibition will include printmaking, drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed-media collage, video, computer-animation, sound, and artist books. Artists expected to participate include Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Michael Paul Britto, Kara Crombie, Damien Davis, Lauren Kelley, Robert Pruitt, Erika Ranee, graphic novelists Mat Johnson and Jeremy Love, Nyeema Morgan, Katayoun Vaziri, and Tian XiaoLei.

Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc. (aka Long Wharf Theatre)
New Haven, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the premiere production of January Joiner by Laura Jacqmin. Directed by Associate Artistic Director Eric Ting, January Joiner is set in an imagined weight-loss boot camp in coastal Florida and follows Myrtle and her sister Terry as they embark upon their shared goal of losing weight.

Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center, Inc.
Waterford, CT
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the creation and development of new plays and musical theater works by emerging and mid-career artists at the National Playwrights Conference and the National Music Theater Conference. Approximately 1,600 manuscripts are received through an open-submission process that culminates in the selection of seven to ten plays and two to four musicals, that receive a rehearsal period and staged readings that are open to the public.

Flood, Reginald L.
Quaker Hill, CT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

HartBeat Ensemble
Hartford, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support Project Turnpike by Cindy Martinez and Debra Walsh with direction by Co-Artistic Director Steven Ginsburg. Inspired by Raymond Bechard's 2011 book The Berlin Turnpike: A True Story of Human Trafficking in America and based on interviews with people impacted by sex trafficking in Connecticut, the play portrays a prostitute who re-examines the control and violence behind her life and work.

Hartford Stage Company, Inc. (aka Hartford Stage)
Hartford, CT
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the premiere of Breath & Imagination -- The Story of Roland Hayes by Daniel Beaty. Employing spirituals and classical music, the play chronicles the life of Roland, who was born the son of a slave in Georgia, discovered his voice singing spirituals in church, and became a world-renowned classical vocalist who later sang before kings and queens in Europe.

Litchfield Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Litchfield Jazz Festival)
Litchfield, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Litchfield Jazz Camp & Festival. The five-week residential program for students of all ages and technical levels offers instruction by professional musicians including Junior Mance, Charli Persip, Matt Wilson, Claudio Roditi, Avery Sharpe, and Don Braden.

Real Art Ways, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Step Up, a solo exhibition series for emerging artists and a 10th anniversary exhibition series of alumni artists' current work. Exhibitions for emerging artists will be accompanied by an artist talk and a critical essay published in print and on the web. Alumni artists selected to present new work are Mike Womak, Xaviera Simmons, Julian Montague, Zoë Sheehan-Saldaña, Kate Gilmore, and Nadya Volicer.

Spring Lake Productions, Inc.
New Milford, CT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new dance theater work by Martha Clarke, in collaboration with former American Ballet Theatre soloist Alessandra Ferri. The inspiration for this new work of dance theater is Cheri, a novella written in 1920 by the French author Colette and the lead roles will be performed by Alessandra Ferri with current principal American Ballet Theatre dancer Herman Cornejo.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (aka Wadsworth Atheneum)
Hartford, CT
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Burst of Light: Caravaggio and His Legacy. This exhibition is the first East Coast exhibition in more than 25 years to explore the impact that Caravaggio (1571-1610) had on artists throughout Europe. It will consist of approximately thirty paintings, divided into sections that reflect a cross section of genre, portraiture, history subjects, and religious scenes.

Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of new books of poetry. Works by such poets as Kazim Ali, Rae Armantrout, Heather Christie, Brenda Coultas, Annie Finch, Peter Gizzi, Brenda Hillman, and Yusef Komunyakaa will be published and promoted. The press will promote the books through organized reading tours for each author and new digital initiatives including custom e-book and print-on-demand anthologies and free online teaching guides.

Yale University (on behalf of Yale Repertory Theatre)
New Haven, CT
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere production of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1978 film In a Year with 13 Moons, adapted for the stage by Robert Woodruff and Bill Camp and directed by Robert Woodruff. Woodruff and Camp will be in residence at the theater throughout the rehearsal process and will collaborate with the theater's artistic and dramaturgical staff in the ongoing refinement of the text and exploration of the physical world of the production.


Number of Grants: 13          Total Amount: $355,000

 
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