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.

LOUISIANA

Adamo, Ralph
New Orleans, LA
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

City of Monroe
Monroe, LA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$20,000
To support the Louisiana Folklife Festival. Based on targeted fieldwork and research, this annual festival celebrates the folklife of Louisiana and the surrounding region.

Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$20,000
To support Hip Hop: Kicking Rhyme. The program will feature a multidisciplinary performance event, a visual art exhibition and a theater residency.

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, LA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$30,000
To support production costs and related expenses for books of poetry. Scheduled titles include Dabney Stuart's The Man Who Loved Cezanne, David Huddle's Grayscale, Catharine Brosman's The Muscled Truce and R.T. Smith's Brightwood.

National Performance Network, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$70,000
To support the creation of work and dance touring. The project will include dance residencies and related educational and outreach activities in over 21 communities throughout the United States.

New Orleans Ballet Association
New Orleans, LA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$15,000
To support the presentation of a series of dance companies representing modern, ballet and ethnic dance. National, international and local dance companies will perform in 17 concerts.

New Orleans Opera Association
New Orleans, LA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$10,000
To support the commissiong and production of The Baroness by Thea Musgrave. This historical opera, based on the life of the Baroness Micaela Almonaster Pontalba of New Orleans, will be the centerpiece for the celebration of the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial.

Total Dollars Awarded: $185,000
Total Grants Awarded: 7

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