| New England Past Awards
Grants Awarded December 2007
Performing Arts
Dance
Bates Dance Festival
$7,500
A two week residency and performances of new work by dance and visual artists Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey
Critical Moves
$10,000
A program presenting emerging and more established contemporary dance artists who have had little exposure in the region
Kinodance Company
$13,000
The creation of two new works by Kinodance in collaboration with musicians Roger Miller and Jessica Rylan
Bronwen MacArthur
$10,000
'World Beyond', a site specific multimedia performance event transforming the floor of an arms factory for the presentation of new work by Bronwen MacArthur and Adele Myers, including a commission by guest artist Lisa Race
Sara Smith
$5,000
'What You are is Who You Are', a new piece concerning the demotion of Pluto from 'planet' to 'dwarf planet' and the relationship of this event to the practice of categorization and the politics of exclusion and inclusion
Music
Halsey Burgund
$5,000
'Round', an interactive audio installation of spoken voice recordings and traditional and electronic instruments to alter and broaden the viewer's experience at the Aldrich Museum
Erik Carlson
$10,000
'Mocking Bird', a new composition based around electronic analysis, manipulation and interpretation of field recordings of Rhode Island's indigenous songbirds
Gamelan Galak Tika
$13,000
The commission and premiere of a new work by composer Terry Riley
Stephen Haynes
$10,000
Support for a residency and recording of legendary trumpet player and composer Bill Dixon
NonEvent
$12,000
An independent music series presenting experimental, improvised, and electronic music to Boston audiences
Theater
Berkshire Fringe Festival
$10,000
A three week festival featuring original theatre, dance and music by emerging artists across the U.S.
Boston Theatre Works
$10,000
Support for a new work by Boston playwright Kirsten Greenidge, and 'Unbound', an annual festival of new plays
Huntington Theatre Company
$10,000
The 'Breaking Ground' festival featuring rehearsed readings of six new plays currently under development at the Huntington
Perishable Theatre
$10,000
The 'Resident Artists at Perishable Theatre', an incubator for contemporary performance works developed by mid-career artists
Theater Offensive
$10,000
'Plays at Work', a new works development initiative mining the talent of Boston's queer communities and developing the work through playwriting workshops, a playlab, and staged readings
Performance Art
Dirk Adams
$5,000
'Mouth of a Story', a choreographed multi-person sound walk that will be produced at the site of the old bear cages in Franklin Park
TEST Performance Art and The Present Tense
$7,000
The third annual 'Contaminate' festival, presenting performance-based work in installation, sound and video as well as short-form and durational performances
Interdisciplinary
International Festival of Art and Ideas
$10,000
The commission of five emerging artists creating an arc of innovative programming within the Festival's larger program
Berwick Research Institute
$15,000
'Artist in Research', a residency program supporting three artists per year in the early stages of studio projects; 'Meet Me at the Table', a series of mini-dinners and public presentations investigating the potential of art to activate the public sphere, and 'Special Projects Incubator', expanding the scope of Berwick's organizational support to selected emerging projects
Center for Advanced Visual Studies
$10,000
The fellowship of puppeteer John Bell, the residency of five local artists in the affiliates program, and a publication that will accompany a major exhibition by 2007 Fellow the Center for Urban Pedagogy [CUP]
Ensemble Robot
$15,000
The commission of new works by composers Paul Lansky and Jenny Johnson, as well as new robot design and prototyping
Musee Patamecanique
$10,000
The creation of the Museum's newest iteration that incorporates both new and current exhibits designed to de-stabilize official notions of ‘the museum’
New Media
AXIOM
$15,000
Funding for exhibitions and special events at the New Media gallery AXIOM
Nell Breyer
$5,000
A new work that is a triptych of performance, video and installation to examine feelings of isolation amid the anxieties and pressures of urban transit
Oni Buchanan
$5,000
'Moths Drink the Tears', an interactive game-poem in which player movements in the game trigger the revelation of corresponding lines of poetry
First Works Providence
$10,000
Support for ‘Pixilerations’, a new media festival, consisting of exhibition and visual performance programming as well as commissioned works by Luca Bovoli, Heidi Kumao, and Marina Zurkow
Brian Knep
$10,000
The continuation of 'Aging' to include the creation of non-repeating films, print series and interactive pieces documenting the development of worms and yeast cells.
Visual
Institute of Contemporary Art
$10,000
The 'Momentum' series, commissioning new works for exhibition in the ICA galleries by emerging artists Ranjani Shettar, Nicholas Hlobo, and a third artist, not yet determined
MASS MoCA
$10,000
To support the exhibition ‘Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape'
MIT List Visual Arts Center
$10,000
An exhibition, public program series, and catalogue on the documentary video installations of French filmmaker Chantal Akerman
Space Gallery
$7,500
'Matter', an exhibition curated by fiber artist Catherine Draper bringing together six other fiber artists to create installations in the gallery
Total Funded Projects: 31
Total Funding: $300,000
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