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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.

MISSOURI

18th & Vine Authority
Kansas City, MO
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$96,000
To support the conservation of the John Baker Film Collection, which spans five decades of American jazz history and expression. Films in the Baker Collection feature such artists as Lena Horne, Eubie Blake and Duke Ellington.

Better Family Life, Inc.
St. Louis, MO
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support a national dance festival. Black Dance-USA: A Celebration in Movement, will consist of performances, dance workshops, discussion sessions, dance films, and African percussion and song classes.

COCA (Center of Contemporary Arts)
St. Louis, MO
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the presentation of dance companies and related residency activities. The Family Theatre series will include Step Afrika, Philadanco and MOMIX.

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis/ Forum for Contemporary Art
St. Louis, MO
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$26,000
To support an exhibition and catalog for Trick of the Eye, featuring the work of the artist Yun Fe Ji. A Chinese-born artist Ji uses traditional materials such as inks, muted pigments, Chinese brushes and handmade mulberry paper to illuminate historic and contemporary concerns.

Coterie, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$20,000
To support the development and presentation of a new play and the creation, development and production of a second new work. Everyday Heroes will be presented in the fall of 2003, and a second commissioned play will be presented in the spring of 2004.

Friends of Chamber Music
Kansas City, MO
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$15,000
To support the International Chamber Music Series. The four presentations will take place in the spring of 2003 in the Folly Theater in St. Louis or the Carlsen Center at Johnson County Community College.

Historyonics Theatre Company
St. Louis, MO
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$8,000
To support the creation of a play about the life of Arthur Ashe. Using only actual words from history, those words spoken by or about Ashe, playwright Caitlin McQuade will craft the script for Controlled Cool: The Arthur Ashe Story.

Kansas City Ballet Association, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$20,000
To support the presentation of works by choreographers. Merce Cunningham's Duets, Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, Nacho Duato's Jardi Tancat and Alonzo King's Handel Trio will be part of the company's 45th anniversary.

Kansas City Symphony
Kansas City, MO
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$15,000
To support the Strategic Programming Initiative, a series of concerts and educational activities. The four concert programs will each be performed three times during the spring of 2003.

Mid-America Arts Alliance
Kansas City, MO
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: International
$100,000
To support a tour and development of educational and programming materials for the exhibition El Ojo Fino, The Exquisite Eye, a show of works of nine prominent women photographers of Mexico.

Missouri Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support the first major Midwest production of Indian Ink by Tom Stoppard. Artistic Director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Risa Brainin, will direct.

National Community Arts Network (United Statewide Community Arts Association)
Columbia, MO
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
$22,000
To support professional development training opportunities, a mentorship program and travel subsidy for attendance at a national conference. The program is designed to benefit the directors and board members of 37 statewide assemblies.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$70,000
To support a new production of Nixon in China by John Adams with libretto by Alice Goodman. Six performances at Webster University's Loretto-Hilton Center are expected to draw an audience of 5,700.

St. Louis African Chorus
St. Louis, MO
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support programs V and VII of the African Choral Odyssey series. During 2003, the St. Louis African Chorus will perform music of southern and eastern Africa in St. Louis and New York.

The Missouri Review (University of Missouri at Columbia)
Columbia, MO
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$25,000
To support publication, promotion and related expenses for issues of The Missouri Review. The magazine will enhance its Web site, increase authors' fees and target 50,000 potential readers through a national direct mail campaign.

Unicorn Theatre
Kansas City, MO
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support the world premiere of a new play. Loving Lucy, by playwright Phillip blue owl Hooser, is part of a trilogy of works presented by the Unicorn Theater about the challenges faced by female performers.

Unity Theatre Ensemble
Florissant, MO
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$7,000
To support the creation, development and presentation of a new play. A Day Late and A Dollar Short will be adapted and directed by Artistic Director Ralph E. Green and will be presented during the spring of 2003.

Total Dollars Awarded: $484,000
Total Grants Awarded: 17


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