2008 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence
[ August 13, 2007 deadline ]
Dance |
Design |
Folk & Traditional Arts |
Literature |
Local Arts Agencies
Media Arts |
Museums |
Music |
Musical Theater |
Presenting |
Theater
Visual Arts
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior
Endowment approval.
Literature
Academy of American Poets, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$55,000
To support National Poetry Month in April 2009. In partnership with the National Council of Teachers of English, the Academy will sponsor outreach programs designed to encourage Americans to make poetry a larger part of their lives.
Adirondack Community College (on behalf of The Writers Project at ACC)
Queensbury, NY
$5,000
To support readings and workshops by nationally renowned and local writers for students and community members. Proposed authors include Martin Espada, Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Amy Tan.
American Library Association (aka ALA)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support a survey of cultural programs for adults in public libraries and poets reading on stage at the 2009 American Library Association (ALA) conference. The ALA will also provide literary program and audience development consultation to librarians at the conference.
Art Sanctuary
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
To support the 25th annual Celebration of Black Writing, featuring a year of outreach programs. Events focusing on black writing and spoken-word poetry will include readings, performances, workshops, and discussions.
Association of Writers & Writing Programs (aka AWP)
Fairfax, VA
$60,000
To support the production, printing, and distribution of The Writer's Chronicle and the AWP Job List, continued development of the AWP Web site, and the 2009 AWP Conference in Chicago.
Brooklyn Public Library Foundation (aka Brooklyn Public Library) (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the Independence Days literary series at the new Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture in Brooklyn. These free events will include author readings, interviews, and discussions and feature authors from five independent literary organizations.
California State University Los Angeles Auxiliary Services, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support an international poetry residency and poetry readings. The project will support the British Council Poet-in-Residency at the Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, and readings by visiting poets.
Center for the Art of Translation
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support Lit & Lunch, a bilingual lunchtime reading series. The monthly program presents a writer working in a foreign language, whose work is read or performed in the original language and also in English.
City of Riverside (on behalf of Riverside Public Library)
Riverside, CA
$15,000
To support community readings and workshops and a discussion guide based on the book Inlandia: A Literary Journey though California's Inland Empire. Key authors from the anthology will also be taped for Internet and government access broadcast.
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the presentation of literary magazine and small press fairs to communities across the country. In partnership with Fence Magazine, each fair will provide a hands-on venue for publishers to introduce readers to the wide variety of writing found in literary magazines and small presses.
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
New York, NY
$50,000
To support technical and capacity-building tools and advice for large, mid-size, and small independent literary publishers. Scheduled services include an interactive Web site, workshops, one-on-one mentoring, and networking opportunities.
Fishtrap, Inc.
Enterprise, OR
$12,500
To support writing workshops, discussions, and readings for residents of the rural Northwest. The themes for the four-day, summer and winter 2008 Fishtrap Gatherings will be Beyond Conflict and Competition and Right Living, about the values of simplicity and charity.
Gemini Series, Inc. (aka Gemini Ink)
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
To support a series of classes, readings, and special events led by published writers and teachers. The University Without Walls program will offer classes and craft workshops for local writers and community members.
Grub Street, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,000
To support a year-long community seminar series that will explore the craft of writing and publishing across genres. The one-day seminars will be held in diverse communities throughout the greater Boston area.
Haleakala, Inc. (aka The Kitchen) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support a series of literary events to showcase small, alternative literary publications and their writers. In partnership with the journal Open City, The Kitchen will promote the monthly series to its mailing list of 25,000 individuals.
Heyday Institute (aka Heyday Books)
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
To support literary events to develop a larger readership of and appreciation for Armenian American literature. The project will include a national book tour with readings, signings, and lectures from Forgotten Bread, an anthology of first-generation Armenian American writers, and The Saroyan Reader.
Inprint, Inc.
Houston, TX
$20,000
To support the Inprint Brown Reading Series. Now in its 27th year, the project has brought more than 250 distinguished writers to Houston.
Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
To support Babel, a literary arts initiative that will bring renowned international writers to western New York for readings and related outreach activities. The 2008-2009 season will begin with a visit from Chinua Achebe in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Things Fall Apart.
Kent State University Main Campus (on behalf of Wick Poetry Center)
Kent, OH
$15,000
To support the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Wick Poetry Center, a year-long series of literary events. The center will augment its regular series by bringing back previous visiting authors to conduct free workshops, panels, and readings.
Knox County Government District Public Defender's Community Law Office (on behalf of Knox County Public Library)
Knoxville, TN
$5,000
To the 5th Annual Children's Festival of Reading at the Knox County Public Library. This free public event hosts children's authors, illustrators, and entertainers on four performance stages.
Literary Arts, Inc.
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support the Oregon Book Awards and Author Tour. Finalists will conduct readings at libraries, bookstores, and community organizations throughout the state.
Loft, Inc. (aka Loft Literary Center)
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
To support The Minnesota Program for Writers. Events will include readings and on-air interviews with nationally recognized authors, and workshops and mentors for emerging writers.
Maine Humanities Council
Portland, ME
$15,000
To support New Books, New Readers, a program that provides books and organizes discussion groups about the books across the state for adults with low literacy skills. Trained coordinators oversee the discussions and use broad themes to connect literature to the lives of the participants.
Marygrove College
Detroit, MI
$5,000
To support a day of readings and workshops with a critically renowned African American writer as part of the college's Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series. The program will be promoted through direct mailings to more than 200,000 students and community members.
Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York (aka Mercantile Library Center for Fiction)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the Fall Fiction Series, which provides readings, panels, and performances by new and established writers. Proposed authors include Lydia Davis, Jonathan Franzen, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Junot Diaz, T. C. Boyle, Dalia Sofer, and Donna Hemans.
Minnesota Humanities Center
St. Paul, MN
$5,000
To support Authors in Communities, a program to send finalists and winners of the Minnesota Book Awards to small, rural towns statewide. Visits will be held in local libraries to strengthen the library's position as a central cultural resource in the community and to foster an intimate exchange between artists and audiences.
Montana Committee for the Humanities (aka Humanities Montana)
Missoula, MT
$15,000
To support the Montana Festival of the Book. Between 75 and 100 regional authors will read and discuss their work at selected venues, reaching an estimated audience of as many as 5,000.
National Book Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the promotion of 2009 National Book Award finalists and winners. The project will include the development and distribution of online audio and video literary programming, as well as posters, book discussion guides, and other marketing materials for bookstores, libraries, festivals, schools, and other outlets.
Northern California Center for the Arts (on behalf of Literature Alive!)
Grass Valley, CA
$5,000
To support literary readings and writing workshops in and around the communities of Grass Valley and Nevada City. Visiting writers also will conduct workshops at local high schools.
NY Writers Coalition Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$5,000
To support the 4th Annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival, which consists of a six-week series of free creative workshops for young people and a public reading.
PEN American Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the 2009 PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature. The five-day festival will feature tributes, forums, conversations, readings, and roundtable discussions in both large-scale and intimate public venues.
PEN Center USA West (aka PEN USA)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support writing residencies and workshops for emerging writers. The project will include Emerging Voices, a one-on-one mentorship program; PEN in the Classroom, providing arts instruction for underserved high school students; and Literary Series: Diaspora Cultures, featuring readings and discussions targeting Korean, Ethiopian, and Native American communities.
PEN/Faulkner Foundation
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the fall 2008/spring 2009 fiction reading series and writers-in-the-schools program. The foundation will distribute to classrooms free copies of books preceding each author's visit.
Poetry Center of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support readings featuring nationally renowned writers and Hands on Stanzas, a poets-in-the-schools program. Students of the program receive an anthology of their own work, free admission to readings, and opportunities to present their poetry at cultural institutions throughout the city.
Poetry Project, Ltd. (aka Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Monday Night and Wednesday Night Reading and Performance Series. The series will feature live presentations by more than 130 poets and performers.
Poetry Society of America
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the continuation of Poetry in Motion, a program that places poetry placards in public transportation systems throughout the country. Poetry in Motion currently reaches 12 million mass transit riders daily in cities nationwide.
Poets & Writers, Inc.
New York, NY
$65,000
To support the publication of Poets & Writers Magazine and the expansion of the Poets & Writers Web site. The Web site provides links to more than 1,500 other Web sites dedicated to helping writers.
Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support Lyric: From Poetry to Song, a series of events celebrating the opening of the new Poets House along the waterfront in Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan. Poets House will present readings, discussions, classes, and performances to an estimated audience of 10,000.
Rattapallax, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the Literary Audio Series of free lectures and poetry readings at the Bowery Poetry Club in the East Village. The series will feature contemporary poets, writers, and scholars discussing important literary figures and connecting them to specific New York City landmarks.
Richard Hugo House
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support New Work, New Ideas, a series of programs to encourage the creation of new work and introduce new work to broader audiences. Activities include intensive writing classes; one-on-one consultations with a writer-in-residence; and the Hugo Literary Series, which brings writers to Seattle to create new work and discuss it with the public.
San Francisco State University (on behalf of The Poetry Center)
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
To support the cataloguing and digitizing of audiotapes from the Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives. The center will record, catalogue, and make available parts of the most significant audiotapes dating from 1954 to 1974.
Seattle Arts & Lectures (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support poetry readings and on-stage interviews with poets in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. In partnership with Literary Arts Inc., in Portland, the organizations will mail promotional brochures to more than 26,000 individuals.
Small Press Distribution, Inc. (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$35,000
To support the expanded distribution of independently published books to booksellers and librarians in the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest, the South, and New England. In partnership with the American Booksellers Association, Small Press Distribution will extend its reach by attending more book festivals and regional tradeshows in these areas.
Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the development and dissemination of materials related to the teaching of creative writing and the literary arts. The collaborative will redesign its Web site, launch an e-newsletter, host in-house readings and discussions, and publish Teachers & Writers magazine, both in print and Online.
Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
To support the 23rd Annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and the 7th Annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival. Both festivals include a series of literary panels, writing workshops, and a scholars' forum.
University of Arizona (on behalf of Poetry Center)
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
To support the 46th Visiting Poets and Writers Reading and Lecture Series. The University of Arizona Poetry Center will support the free series with lesson plans to K-12 teachers, community reading groups prior to each event, and an audio anthology of poems read by visiting poets.
University of Houston (on behalf of Arte Público Press)
Houston, TX
$30,000
To support a tour of Texas Latino authors to schools, towns, and libraries along the Texas/Mexico border. The tour of predominantly Mexican American communities will serve to increase awareness about Hispanic literature in these underserved areas.
University of Mississippi Main Campus
University, MS
$5,000
To support the 2009 Oxford Conference for the Book. The program will be dedicated to the Mississippi artist, author, and naturalist Walter Inglis Anderson (1903-65).
University of North Texas
Denton, TX
$5,000
To support literary readings and lectures for the 2008 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest. The conference will feature leading nonfiction writers, journalists, and magazine and book editors of this artistic craft.
University of Pittsburgh Main Campus (on behalf of University of Pittsburgh Press)
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support free poetry readings at colleges and universities around the country in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Pitt Poetry Series. The University of Pittsburgh Press will target historically black colleges, small liberal arts colleges in rural areas, and community colleges in urban areas with predominantly minority students.
University of Southern Indiana
Evansville, IN
$5,000
To support a festival celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Rope Walk Writers Retreat. Events will include a master workshop, a publishing symposium sponsored by the Southern Indiana Review, and a nightly reading series open to the public.
University of Texas at Dallas (on behalf of American Literary Translators Association)
Dallas, TX
$40,000
To support services provided by the American Literary Translators Association to enhance the professional development of literary translators. Activities include the 31st annual conference in St. Paul, Minnesota; the publication of a newsletter and issues of the Translation Review; and continued development of the Web site.
Utah Humanities Council
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
To support the 11th annual Utah Humanities Book Festival. The free, three-day festival will feature readings and writing workshops by Utah writers.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Amherst, VA
$15,000
To support month-long residencies for writers in order to support their creative work. Fellowships will be offered to writers who have never been in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy (Consortium)
Charlottesville, VA
$15,000
To support the 15th annual Virginia Festival of the Book. For five days, the festival will feature author readings, lectures, and writing workshops free-of-charge.
White Pine, Inc. (aka White Pine Press)
Buffalo, NY
$25,000
To support the publication and promotion of volumes of poetry and fiction.
Woodland Pattern, Inc. (aka Woodland Pattern Book Center)
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
To support a series of readings, exhibits, and community workshops. Newsletters promoting the events are sent to 4,000 households throughout the region.
Writer's Garret
Dallas, TX
$20,000
To support The Writer's Studio, a radio show broadcast on KERA Public Radio FM. Taped in front of a live audience, the show features interviews with established authors.
Writers & Books, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
To support a series of educational and outreach programs. The project will offer readings, writing workshops, lectures, and online classes for adults and intergenerational groups.
Writers Room, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support subsidized work space for emerging writers. The Writers Room is an urban writers' colony in New York City.
Writers' Room of Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,000
To support subsidized work space for emerging writers in Boston. The project will provide 20 authors with quiet work space 24 hours a day.
Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association (aka 92nd Street Y) (on behalf of Unterberg Poetry Center)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Unterberg Poetry Center's 2008-2009 Main Reading Series. The series features readings by established and emerging writers, literary tributes, and dialogues between writers and audiences about literary and related topics.
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