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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.

NEW JERSEY

International Sculpture Center, Inc.
Hamilton, NJ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$20,000
To support a series of articles and reviews on emerging and under-recognized artists for Sculpture magazine. Articles solicited will focus on work of current artists, events and public art projects.

McCarter Theatre Company
Princeton, NJ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$50,000
To support a production of a play by Anton Chekhov. Artistic Director Emily Mann will adapt and direct Uncle Vanya as the fifth play of the 2002-03 Mainstage Theater Series.

National Poetry Series, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support judging fees and publication costs for volumes of poetry selected from the National Poetry Series Open Competition. Chosen by poets, the winning manuscripts will be published by HarperCollins, Louisiana State Univ. Press, Sun & Moon Press, the Univ. of Illinois Press and Viking Penguin.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Newark, NJ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$30,000
To support a three-week Winter Festival, an exploration of American roots in works at the turn of the 20th century. The orchestra will perform works by Chadwick, MacDowell, Ives, Gottschalk and Still.

Reiter, Thomas
Neptune, NJ
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium
Jersey City, NJ
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$18,000
To support the Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. Over 60 organizations throughout the United States host the festival each year which draws over 700 entries from all over the country.

Total Dollars Awarded: $148,000
Total Grants Awarded: 6