OFA CERAMICS PROGRAM
Funding for Student Fall Arts Projects
Over 700 students will participate in more than 30 dance, music, theater, and multidisciplinary projects at Harvard this fall, sponsored in part through funding from the OFA Grant Program.
Grants are designed to foster innovative artistic initiatives and are awarded to undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff. Funded projects combine artistic merit, artistic experimentation, and education benefit to undergraduates, and must also aim for a university-wide “ripple effect” that involves the undergraduate population and provides visibility for their artistic efforts.
The funded projects were selected by the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which funded 80 percent of the grant requests. Council members at the time of selection were: Robert J. Kiely (Chair), Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker, Professor of English; Elizabeth Bergmann, Dance Director, Office for the Arts Dance Program; S. Allen Counter, Director of the Harvard Foundation; Deborah Foster, Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education; Jorie Graham, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; Annette Lemieux, Professor of the Practice of Studio Arts in Visual and Environmental Studies; Cathleen McCormick, Director of Programs, Office for the Arts; Jack Megan, Director, Office for the Arts; Robert J. Orchard, Managing Director of the Loeb Drama Center and the American Repertory Theatre Company; Marcus Stern, Associate Director, American Repertory Theatre and the A.R.T/ MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training; John Stewart, Senior Preceptor in Music; and Paul Stopforth, Head Tutor, Visual and Environmental Studies.
The OFA, which administers the grants, also offers grants for projects taking place during spring semester 2005 and ARTS FIRST 2005. Harvard’s annual celebration of the arts.
DANCE
All That Jazz, Mainly Jazz Dance Company: KAHN GRANT for a concert featuring various forms and styles of jazz dance, including student-choreographed pieces.
Fall Concert 2004, Expressions Dance Company: KAHN GRANT for a performance of student-choreographed pieces in a wide range of dance styles, from hip hop to jazz to modern.
Fall Performance 2004, Harvard Ballet Company: KAHN GRANT for a performance including an original piece by Rebecca Alaly ‘04-’05, whose choreography has received national recognition, and a piece by Boston Ballet resident choreographer Daniel Pelzig.
Campus Performances, Crimson Dance Team: KAHN GRANT for multiple performances during Fall Semester 2004.
TAPS Fall show '04, TAPS: KAHN GRANT for a fall performance in Lowell Lecture Hall.
Rhythm of the Night, Mainly Jazz Dance Company and TAPS: KAHN GRANT for a dance concert featuring individual and combined group performances showcasing a variety of musical and dance styles.
Winter Recital, Harvard Ballroom Dance Company: KAHN GRANT for a Winter Recital by the Ballroom Dance Company.
LITERATURE
Diversity & Distinction: OFA GRANT for publication dedicated to creating dialogue on multiculturalism, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation and other social issues.
Harvard Book Review: OFA GRANT for publication featuring undergraduate-written reviews of recently published books.
Voice Where Prohibited: OFA GRANT for second issue of publication that provides a forum for essays, creative fiction and non-fiction, as well as opinion pieces and artwork.
Vox Literary Magazine: OFA GRANT for a magazine that features poetry, fiction, essays, photography art, and reviews.
queer.: OFA GRANT for a cultural journal combining visual art with reflective literature that provides a forum on what it means to be queer.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Apollo Night, Black Student’s Association: KAHN GRANT for a performance promoting artistic creativity and multicultural expression in the Harvard community as well as in neighboring colleges and high schools in the Boston community.
Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona, Melopoeia Musica: ECKSTEIN-LIPSON GRANT for a production of Pergolesi's comic one-act opera in an intimate setting.
MUSIC
35th Annual Dr. S. Allen Counter Christmas Concert, Kuumba Singers of Harvard College: ECKSTEIN-LIPSON GRANT for Kuumba's annual Christmas Concert celebrating and sharing the rich creativity and spirituality of black cultures.
Bach Society Orchestra Concerts I and II, The Bach Society Orchestra: ECKSTEIN-LIPSON GRANT for two fall concerts featuring works by such composers as Adams, Beethoven, Mozart, Ravel, and Stravinsky.
Duke Ellington Jazz Band concert, Harvard Jazz Bands: KAHN GRANT for a tribute concert to the music of pianist/composer Duke Ellingtonfeaturing the Sunday and Monday Jazz Bands.
Fall 2004 Concert, THUD (The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers): ECKSTEIN-LIPSON GRANT for a concert of percussion music including original student compositions played on unconventional instruments.
Grit and Grazioso, Harvard Wind Ensemble: KAHN GRANT for a concert dedicated to the music of American composer Vincent Persichetti.
Harvard Festival of Women's Choruses, Radcliffe Choral Society: KAHN GRANT for a November festival including several concerts, open rehearsals, workshops, and seminars celebrating women's choral music.
Christmas Concert, Harvard Glee Club: ECKSTEIN-LIPSON GRANT for a seasonal concert performed by the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society.
L'Orfeo, The Harvard Early Music Society: KHAN GRANT for a November production of Monteverdi's opera.
Pops on Broadway, Harvard Pops Orchestra: KAHN GRANT for a concert featuring music from popular Broadway productions such as Phantom of the Opera, Cats, and Les Miserables including pieces arranged by Pops members.
Quincy Coffeehouse, KHAN GRANT for the establishment of a Coffeehouse to provide a venue for Harvard student singer/songwriters to perform original material and create a bridge between Harvard students and the surrounding arts community.
The Dartmouth Concert, Harvard Wind Ensemble, Harvard Jazz Bands, Harvard University Band: KAHN GRANT for a concert commemorationg the 85th anniversary of the Harvard University Band.
Trouble in Tahiti: KAHN GRANT for a concert version of Leonard Bernstein's short opera.
THEATER
Caligula, Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC): TIMOTHY S. MAYER GRANT for a production of Camus’ play.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Winthrop House Drama Society: H. TODD COBEY GRANT for a located in the Winthrop Junior Common Room
Hamlet, HRDC: H. TODD COBEY GRANT for a production of Shakespeare’s work contextualized within the framework of the Catholic mass and Catholic rituals.
Story Theater Project, Harvard Story-Time Players: OFA GRANT for start-up funding for a group to perform original work in Boston area children's hospitals and pediatric wards.
TRADITIONAL CULTURAL ARTS
Fall Concert 2004, Harvard Bhangra: KHAN GRANT for a November performance.
Raunak 2004, South Asian Dance Company (SADC): KAHN GRANT for SADC's third annual intercollegiate fusion dance show featuring many styles of Indian dance, including bharat natyam, kathak, tap, hip hop, bhangra, ballet, raas and modern.
