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FY 2005 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

MASSACHUSETTS

Akhra:The Dancing Grounds, Inc. (consortium)
Somerville, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support a consortium project to create and present Hands: Rhythm Project. In partnership with the Seattle International Children's Festival, composer Nandlal Nayak and choreographer Wendy Jehlen will create a work that will bring together musicians and dancers from the United States, India, and Japan.

American Repertory Theatre
Cambridge, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of a classic play. Renowned Polish director and designer Krystian Lupa will stage and direct Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov.

Amherst College (on behalf of Folger Shakespeare Library)
Amherst, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of the play The Clandestine Marriage by David Garrick and George Colman, to be directed by Richard Clifford. The lighthearted comedy tells the story of an arranged marriage of an 18th-century English aristocrat that goes awry. A related exhibit at the Folger Library portrays Garrick's life as a renowned actor and playwright.

Arts Extension Institute, Inc.
Amherst, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies 
To support Peripheral Vision: A New Look at Community. The project will focus on bringing a range of local arts agencies in Massachusetts together with local government and community-based organizations to collaborate on enhancing quality of life issues.

Boston Academy of Music, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support a new production of Robert Ward's opera The Crucible, performed at the Cutler Majestic Theater in Boston, and additional activities held at historical sites and schools surrounding the Greater Boston area. Opera Boston will partner with the Salem National Historical Park to create participatory workshops and outreach events.

Boston Ballet, Inc.
Boston, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the presentation of Falling Angels, created by choreographer Jiri Kylian. The dance is set to Steve Reich's Drumming, Part 1, a study in musical minimalism for a drum ensemble.

Boston Baroque, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support a production of Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste. The fully staged, period-style performances and a pre-performance lecture will be presented in the Cutler Majestic Theater.

Boston Early Music Festival, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support the world premiere and fully staged performances of Johannes Mattheson's baroque opera Boris Goudenow, and pre-performance lectures by the artistic team. This "lost" opera will be the centerpiece of the 13th biennial festival theme, "Germany, Russia and the Baltic States: Music in the Maritime World of Northern Europe."

Boston Lyric Opera Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support the East Coast premiere of The Little Prince, by composer Rachel Portman and librettist Nicholas Wright. The performances are targeted to audiences of all ages and backgrounds as well as first-time audiences.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Boston, MA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support a concert opera performance of Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. The three performances scheduled will be conducted by Music Director-designate James Levine during his debut season with the orchestra.

Boston University (on behalf of AGNI)
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the publication and promotion of issues of AGNI. The magazine will launch an 8,000-piece direct mail campaign to readers of publications such as Poets & Writers.

Celebrity Series of Boston, Inc. (consortium)
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support a consortium project to present modern dance companies. The project is being developed in collaboration with The Wang Center for the Performing Arts, and will also include Dance Across the City Day, a day of free dance activities.

College of the Holy Cross (consortium)
Worcester, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support a consortium project, the exhibition Hope and Healing: Painting in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Organized in collaboration with the Worcester Art Museum and Clark University, in Worcester, MA, the exhibition will illuminate art that expressed the major aesthetic and social concerns in Renaissance and Baroque Italy.

Cultural Images Group Inc.
Northampton, MA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the commission and development of a new play by Venezuelan playwright Greta Sanchez. The piece will be developed collaboratively by the Serious Play! Ensemble in the tradition of avant-garde physical theater.

Double Edge Theatre Productions, Inc.
Ashfield, MA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the development and production of a play adapted from the a novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. The novel portrays Soviet society at the turn of the 20th century and explores the nature of artistic, political, and spiritual courage and freedom.

Emmanuel Music, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support a festival of George Frederic Handel's operas performed in concert format. The trilogy of operas will include Orlando, Ariodante, and Alcina.

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc.
Provincetown, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the Residency Fellowship Program. Emerging contemporary visual artists and writers will be provided housing, studios, and a monthly stipend during their residency.

Handel & Haydn Society
Boston, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support a historically informed performance of J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Under the direction of Music Director Grant Llewellyn, the April 2006 performances will be complemented by educational materials, lectures and discussions.

Harvard University (on behalf of Harvard Design Magazine)
Cambridge, MA
$17,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design 
To support Harvard Design Magazine. The publication includes commissioned essays and photography that explore critical issues in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.

Held, Grey
Newtonville, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.  

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the New Theatres/New Works artistic development programs. Play development activities will include commissions, developmental support, community partnerships, and the Breaking Ground new play festival.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Lee, MA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support residencies and performances of dance companies. The project will include a residency program, presentation of national and international dance companies, and audience outreach activities.

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 titled TeknoSensorium, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition of work by contemporary artists will explore the impact of new technologies on human senses.

McDonough, Jill
Jamaica Plain, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.  

National Center for Jewish Film
Waltham, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the preservation of The Jester (aka Drama of a Clown), a 1932 musical comedy about a father's plans to marry his daughter into a prominent family. The Center's collection contains two original nitrate prints of the film from which the complete narrative can be pieced together.

North Shore Community Arts Foundation, Inc.
Beverly, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support the 2005 New Works Development Program. Since 1985, North Shore Music Theatre has provided a nurturing environment for artists and has been a catalyst in the development of new musicals.

Northeast Document Conservation Center (consortium)
Andover, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support a consortium project to provide training in disaster planning for museums in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. The project will be carried out in conjunction with the Vermont Museum and Gallery Alliance.

Ploughshares, Inc.
Boston, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the publication and national circulation of issues of Ploughshares. The Winter 2005-06 and Spring 2006 issues will feature new work by as many as 70 poets and 12 fiction writers.

Selby, Martha Ann
Cambridge, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the retranslation from classical Tamil of Ainkurunuru, a Fourth-century anthology of love poems. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king, the Ainkurunu is one of eight anthologies of ancient Tamil verse. Discovered in the late 19th century bundled in a basket inside a South Indian Saiva monastery, it was first published in Madras in 1902. The Ainkurunu contains the work of five poets, each of whom composed 100 poems devoted to one of five "landscapes" of reciprocal love (jealous quarreling, tortured separation and lament, clandestine love, abject separation, and domestic bliss). Only one complete translation of the text has been published in English, and it is marred by inaccuracies and outdated usages.

Martha Ann Selby is an associate professor of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her previous translations include Grow Long, Blessed Night: Love Poems from Classical India, and A Circle of Six Seasons: Old Tamil, Prakrit, and Sanskrit Verse.

Smith College (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Northampton, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the exhibition The French Portrait: Revolution to Restoration, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the broad scope of French portraiture during the Neoclassical period, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, and miniatures.

Teig, Michael
Northampton, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.  

Underground Railway Puppets & Actors, Inc.
Arlington, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the creation, presentation, and tour of A State of Grace, directed by Greg Smucker and lead by writer/performer Debra Wise. The play is inspired by the work of writer and poet Grace Paley.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on behalf of Jubilat)
Amherst, MA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the publication and promotion of issues of Jubilat. Each issue will feature contemporary poetry, translations, reprints, found pieces, lyric prose, and author interviews.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on behalf of New World Theater)
Amherst, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support New Works for a New WORLD (NW2), a play-development laboratory. New World Theater will target support to works-in-progress by artists of color.

Verse, Inc. (on behalf of Verse Press)
Florence, MA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of new books of poetry and creative nonfiction. Verse Press will schedule author reading tours around the country.

World Music, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the presentation of international, national, and local dance companies. Residency activities will include workshops, master classes, and discussions.

Wunderlich, Mark C.
Provincetown, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.  

Yard, Inc.
Chilmark, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the Bessie Schönberg Choreographers and Dancers Residency and a company residency. Emerging choreographers and dance companies will be in residency for four weeks.

Zephyr Press (Aspect, Inc.)
Brookline, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the publication and promotion of books by Austrian, Chinese, and American writers. The press will market its Chinese and Austrian titles to international bookstores and cultural centers, and add an audio component to its Web site featuring authors reading their work.

MASSACHUSETTS total grants: 39
MASSACHUSETTS total dollars: $828,000


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