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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.

WASHINGTON

911 Media Arts Center
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$17,500
To support the Artists-in-Residence Program. Through equipment access and technical support, the program nurtures emerging and established media artists in the creative use of new technologies.

A Contemporary Theatre, Inc.
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$18,000
To support the world premiere production of a new play by Craig Lucas. Set in Freud's Vienna in 1938, The Singing Forest, traces the intertwining lives of several psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and their extended families.

Artist Trust
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$15,000
To support the maintenance and expansion of the Information Services program. The project serves artists by collecting and dispensing professional development information and resources to the artists of Washington.

Cinema Seattle
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support the 8th annual Women in Cinema Film Festival. Approximately 35 films will be presented to an audience of over 7,000 people.

Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$65,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of books of poetry in translation. The list will include bilingual editions of classic works, new editions of out-of-print translations, essays on the art of translation and reissues of significant backlist collections.

Gravender, David
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

Henry Gallery Association, Inc.
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$25,000
To support artists' residencies and commissions. The project will replace art-making on view, with artists creating in "real time" within the galleries.

Intiman Theatre
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$30,000
To support the production of a play by William Shakespeare. Artistic Director Bartlett Sher will direct a production of Twelfth Night, a high Shakespearean comedy.

Jack Straw Memorial Foundation
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$30,000
To support audio art residencies. The program will make available Jack Straw studios and facilities to Northwest artists from a variety of disciplines.

NNABA (Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association)
Omak, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$20,000
To support the 2003 Master Basketweavers Gathering. The gathering will honor 35 Native-American master basketweavers by showcasing their basketry, demonstrating artistic styles and producing a public art market.

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support production and editing facilities for independent filmmakers at WigglyWorld Studios. Out of the Can offers flatbed-editing facilities; Roll Camera provides 16mm camera and sound packages; and New Model Edit offers a non-linear editing suite.

Northwest Folklife Festival
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$30,000
To support the Maritime Cultures in the Atlantic Northeast and the Pacific Northwest project. Curatorial teams from each region will help determine programming for the 2003 Northwest Folklife Festival showcasing the conservation of maritime culture.

Northwest Puppet Center (Carter Family Puppet Theater)
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$12,000
To support the creation of The Sneeze of Hercules. Based on an Italian comedy last performed in the 18th century, the work will incorporate marionettes, masked actors, live music and opera singers.

O'Connor, Thomas M.
Port Townsend, WA
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support the translation from Classical Chinese of Another Path: Poems on Chinese Reclusion. The collection will feature 15 poets from the mid- and late-Tang Dynasty.

On the Boards
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$15,000
To support the New Performance Series and the Northwest New Works Festival. The New Performances Series will include challenging new works by artists; the Northwest New Works Festival is an annual juried showcase of new works by regional artists.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$45,000
To support the world premiere of a new production of Swan Lake. Choreographed by Kent Stowell, the new production will coincide with the opening of Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, the new home of Pacific Northwest Ballet.

Pat Graney Company
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The Vivian Girls, inspired by artist Henry Darger, will be choreographed by Pat Graney, with music by Amy Denio and Irish musician Martin Hayes.

Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$25,000
To support the public art project Transitions. Artists Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry will create a series of street installations addressing issues of homelessness and youth.

Pilchuck Glass School
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$25,000
To support planning and implementation of a summer artists residency program. Artists will be provided with time, resources, facilities and technical assistance on Pilchuck's campus.

Seattle Arts & Lectures
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support a series of readings and lectures in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. Proposed participants include Carol Anne Duffy, Louise Gluck, Linda Gregg, Susan Howe, Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Muldoon, Harriet Mullen and Carl Phillips.

Seattle Chamber Players
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new theatrical chamber music work by composer Paul Dresher. The premiere will take place at Benaroya Hall and will be sung by tenor John Duykers.

Seattle Children's Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$35,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. Go Dog Go, adapted by playwright and director Steven Dietz and writer/choreographer Allison Gregory, will feature music by Michael Koener.

Seattle Opera
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$50,000
To support a new production of Mourning Becomes Electra by Marvin David Levy. Eight mainstage performances in Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, related community and education events, and live radio broadcasts are expected to reach an audience of more than 58,000.

Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$45,000
To support the production of a classic play. Artistic Director Sharon Ott will direct a production of Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$65,000
To support Then and Now, a performance project that will feature music from the last 100 years. It will include a May festival, The World Looks West, and a number of educational and outreach activities.

Tears of Joy Theatre
Vancouver, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$12,000
To support the creation and tour of a play for the puppet stage. Author Eric Kimmel and African American musician storyteller Nyewusi Askari will collaborate with Artistic Director Nancy Aldrich to develop a production entitled The Anansi Stories.

Unidentified Moving Objects, Inc.
Vashon, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$8,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. Fatal Peril by playwright Adam Rapp will be developed in collaboration with director and ensemble member Ruth Zapora, and will be presented in the fall of 2003.

Velocity Dance Center
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support a national dance touring alliance. The project will enable dance companies in Seattle, Wash.; San Francisco, Calif.; Philadelphia, Penn.; and Minneapolis, Minn. to perform in each city.

Village Theatre
Issaquah, WA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$10,000
To support a musical theater development program. Five staged readings and five table readings of new musical works will take place in Village Theatre's development program, Village Originals.

Total Dollars Awarded: $697,500
Total Grants Awarded: 29


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