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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.

TEXAS

ArtLies
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$13,000
To support the reviews section of ArtLies, a quarterly publication that covers the visual arts in Texas. First published in 1993, ArtLies seeks to expand its news coverage and critical dialogue of the visual arts.

Austin Film Society (on behalf of Passage Productions)
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Susanne Mason. Let It Roll: A History of the Texas Penitentiary recounts the inmate-led revolt against prison conditions in Texas during the 1960s and 1970s.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support the presentation of a curated film and video series. Over 70 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 36,000 people.

Austin Lyric Opera
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$25,000
To support the southwestern premiere of Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie with libretto by Terrence McNally. Performances will be held in Bass Concert Hall on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin in January 2003.

Ballet Austin, Inc.
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the creation of dance works set to the music of Austin bands. 3 by 3ŠBy 3 Live Bands will include works by choreographers Dwight Rhoden, Gina Patterson and Artistic Director Stephen Mills.

Brock, Geoffrey
Dallas, TX
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

City of Dallas Park and Recreation Department
Dallas, TX
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Save America's Treasures
$200,000
To support the conservation of the cast-concrete outdoor statuary, fountain pylons and bas-relief sculpture on the Esplanade of State in Fair Park, a National Historic Landmark. Fair Park was built in 1936 as the Texas Centennial Exposition, a regional World's Fair, and contains the largest collection of intact grouping of Exposition buildings in the United States.

Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of artist Matthew Ritchie, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

CW&TW (Center for Women & Their Work)
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$27,000
To support a series of solo exhibitions targeted to young and emerging women artists of Texas. The exhibitions will be accompanied by catalogs and educational and outreach activities.

Da Camera Society of Texas, Inc.
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$15,000
To support the presentation of concerts and related panel discussions exploring modernism through music. Three new productions are planned to accompany the Masterworks of the Museum of Modern Art exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2003-04.

Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Dallas, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$20,000
To support a New York residency. The residency will include public performances and several outreach activities in schools, churches and community centers.

Dallas Children's Theater, Inc.
Dallas, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support the development and world premiere production of Coyote Stories. Creators Linda Daugherty and Denise Chavez will explore a collection of Hispanic stories and folk characters using the coyote, or trickster, to take a dynamic look into Hispanic culture.

Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$25,000
To support the exhibition New Art in Texas, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Dallas Opera
Dallas, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$35,000
To support a production of Pique Dame by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Four performances of Richard Jones' 2000 Barclay Stage Award-winning production will be given at the Music Hall at Fair Park in 2003, reaching an estimated audience of 21,000.

Dallas Theater Center
Dallas, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$20,000
To support the Big D Festival of the Unexpected, a two-week festival of new works. Activities in the festival will include workshops, full productions and staged readings of new works, as well as music, visual arts and youth programs.

Dance Umbrella
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$20,000
To support the presentation of dance events. All artists will participate in residencies that will include professional-level master classes and workshops, pre- and post-performance discussions, panels and lecture demonstrations.

DiverseWorks ArtSpace
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$40,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of new works. The project will include a series of visual arts exhibitions, performances, artist residencies and educational activities.

Essbaum, Tiffany Jill
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$40,000
To support Voces Femeninas: Woman Artists Across Las Generaciones. This year-long project will pair established and emerging dancers, writers, and theater artists to explore the contributions of women artists to Latino/Chicano culture.

Houston Ballet Foundation
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$40,000
To support the world premiere of dance works. Choreographers Ben Stevenson, Paul Taylor and Trey McIntyre will create the works.

Houston Center for Photography
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$25,000
To support a traveling exhibition and catalog featuring work by artists who specialize in photograms. Artists Joy Gregory and the collaborative team of Francoise and Daniel Cartier will be commissioned to make new work.

Houston Symphony Society
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$40,000
To support the Concerto Commissioning Project- the creation and presentation of a new concerto for a principal player in the orchestra. Samuel Adler will compose a concerto for French horn, with William Ver Meulen, Principal Horn of the Houston Symphony, as soloist.

International Cinematexas Short Film Festival
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$20,000
To support the Austin Eye+Ear Performance Series. The series will showcase work by artists who have not previously performed in Austin.

Jump-Start Performance Company
San Antonio, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$10,000
To support the fourth Festival de Libre Enganche, a three-week exploration of the diversity and commonalities of Latin American experience. Jump-Start will present theater, dance, music, video and visual arts, along with workshops for artists and community members.

Kitchen Dog Theater Company
Dallas, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the New Works Festival and the Playwrights Under Progress (PUP) Fest. The festival will feature the full production of Curanderas! Serpents of the Clouds by Elaine Romero, staged readings of new works and staged readings of new plays by teens.

Marks, Corey
Denton, TX
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

Mexic-Arte
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$17,000
To support a series of exhibitions featuring the work of contemporary Latino artists. The project will include two exhibitions by prominent artists and a series of shows for emerging artists.

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
San Antonio, TX
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$35,000
To support a leadership institute and four regional meetings. This two-part project will provide community-based organizations with capacity building skills, leadership training and technical assistance.

Project Row Houses
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$42,000
To support a residency program to commission artist installations in several shotgun-style row houses. Artists will be provided with a commissioning fee, a materials stipend, travel costs and per diem.

Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance, Inc.
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$10,000
To support Jibaro music and dance workshops. The workshops will be led by Joaquin Nieves Caldero and the Guateque Folkloric Ballet of Puerto Rico and will culminate in a series of concerts.

Serie Project, Inc.
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$12,000
To support a serigraph printmaking residency program for artists at all stages in their careers. The apprentices will be trained in printing, marketing, promotion and arts administration.

SWAMP (Southwestern Alternate Media Projects, Inc.)
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support the production and statewide distribution of The Territory. As the longest running showcase of media art in the United States, the public television series presents independent film and video works to over 12 million viewers throughout Texas.

Texas A&M Research Foundation
College Station, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$38,000
To support Writing the Self and Community, a series of public readings and writing workshops organized by the journal Callaloo. The journal will sponsor two-week summer workshops at Texas A&M University, and one-day workshops at historically black colleges and universities around the country.

Texas Book Festival
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support readings and panel discussions by prominent authors participating in the 2003 Texas Book Festival. The festival will feature such writers as Michael Cunningham, Ai, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Jimmy Santiago Baca and Frank McCourt.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$46,000
To support the Community Residency Program. The program will consist of 15 week-long residencies in underserved Texas towns with populations under 10,000.

University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
Fort Worth, TX
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$20,000
To support a national conference on occupational safety and injury prevention for musicians, to be hosted jointly by the University of North Texas at Denton and the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. The goal of the project, using consensus-building methodology, will be the development of an educational module and recommendations for National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) member organizations.

Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support the 17th Annual Dallas Video Festival. The event will present classic work programmed with new video art.

Voices of Change
Dallas, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of a new work by composer Robert Xavier Rodriguez. Based on Nortan Juster's classic 1963 children's book, The Dot and The Line, the composition will feature a narrator and chamber ensemble.

West, Marlys Mitchell
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

William Marsh Rice University
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$35,000
To support the development, creation and presentation of an adaptive, web-based master plan for Houston's Fifth Ward. The plan will assist this older, inner-city neighborhood to direct development forces in a manner sensitive to the current residents and built environment.

Total Dollars Awarded: $1,100,000
Total Grants Awarded: 40


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