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2003 Grant Awards: State Listings

Creativity/Organizational Capacity/Literature Fellowships
Leadership Initiatives

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

MARYLAND

Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$17,500
To support the presentation of an oratorio by Dave Brubeck, Beloved Son, including educational activities. Under the direction of Music Director Tom Hall, the performance will take place in March 2003 on the campus of Morgan State University.

Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts
Bethesda, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work about King Arthur, focusing on adoption. British playwright Charles Way will be commissioned to write King Arthur, a work targeted to young audiences.

Center Stage Associates, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$42,000
To support a production of Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart directed by Artistic Director Irene Lewis. This reinvestigation of Schiller's 1799 work will be offered as part of the 2002-03 subscription season.

Columbia Festival of the Arts
Columbia, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support a year-long residency project for a hip-hop dance company with a history of working with inner-city youth. Rennie Harris Puremovement will present Facing Mekka and will work with low income teens to develop their own works.

Howard County Poetry and Literature Society, Inc.
Columbia, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support the presentation and promotion of writers' residencies and television interviews featuring nationally recognized authors. Proposed authors include Julia Alvarez, Michael Chabon, Billy Collins, Elizabeth Spires, Stanley Plumly, Reuben Jackson, Henry Taylor, Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney and Michael Collier.

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$46,000
To support a series of touring concerts and accompanying educational and outreach programs featuring traditional artists. The tour is designed to create new ways for presenters to work together to increase the effectiveness and reach of touring programs and provide opportunities to reach new audiences.

Puppet Co.
Glen Echo, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$8,000
To support the creation and production of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. This will be the first repertory piece to premiere in The Puppet Co.'s new facility in Glen Echo Park, Maryland.

Round House Theatre
Bethesda, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$25,000
To support the East Coast premiere production of When Grace Comes In by Heather McDonald. Associate Artist Jane Beard collaborated with McDonald during the development phases of the script, and will play the principal role in the production.

Soundprint Media Center, Inc.
Laurel, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support artists' fees for a documentary radio series. A Day in the Life of programs, produced by independent radio artists, will capture 24 hours in the life of a subject and condense it into a half hour documentary.

Writer's Center
Bethesda, MD
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support readings and workshops in rural towns in Maryland and Virginia. Proposed visiting writers include Cynthia Ozick, Jane Smiley, Stanley Plumly, Thomas Lux, E. Ethlebert Miller and Henry Taylor.

Total Dollars Awarded: $208,500
Total Grants Awarded: 10


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