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2009 Grant Awards

In 2009, more than 100 students and faculty participated in 21 dance, music, theater, and multidisciplinary projects at Brandeis during the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts, sponsored in part through funding from the Office of the Arts. Grants are awarded to Brandeis undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff to produce innovative and artistic work that offers opportunities to create, participate, and learn about the arts. The grants jury evaluates applications on the quality and innovation of the project, and the potential for broad involvement of the Brandeis community during the festival.

Performing Arts

• James Borchers, Christian Gentry, Peter Lane Van Zandt (GRAD), $600 for BEAMS Half-Marathon, concert of new electronic and electro-acoustic music by Brandeis graduate and undergraduate students, and by guest composer Charles Dodge.
• Brandeis Playback Society, $100 for performance of improvisational theater based on audience stories.
• Susan Dibble and Susannah Katsman, $500 for performance of original choreography by Brandeis Dance Collective (Brandeis alumnae and students)
• Alex Fleming ‘09 $50 for performance of Moon Zoo: The Trilogy, original satirical play with music.
• Irving Fine Society (Nicholas A. Brown ’10), $350 for concert of music by Samuel Barber & Irving Fine
• Mohammad Kundas ’10, $250 for Fusion of the Western Soul/Oriental Beat, concert and recording by Mochila, a fusion of Arabic, jazz, reggae, reggaeton, and Indian classical music
• Mu-Xuan Lin (GRAD) $350 for multimedia performance based on original story, with chamber music, dance, and video
• Florie Namir and Mina Muraoka (GRAD), $275 for performance of original music and ballet, with documentary video
• Katie Nadworny '09 / Free Play Theater Cooperative $100 for performance of The Tower, a play by Matthew Maguire
• William-Bernard Reid-Varley '09, $75 for Dispossessed, performance of original play
• Catherine Wagner ’09, $180 for All Springs, performance of original physical theater/dance piece based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

• Coretta Garlow ’10,  $250 for large-scale watercolor painting
• Amanda Millet-Sorsa ’09, $450 for Illusions of Painting and Mime, large-scale oil painting addressing ideas of illusion
• Ariella Silverstein-Tapp ’09, $275 for Public Memory: 11/4/2008, series of large-scale portraits relating to the election of President Barack Obama, sourced from news photographs
• Danielle Friedman ’09, $400 for Party, built environment evocative of a child’s birthday party in the late 1980s
• Catherine McConnell ’10 and Hannah Richman ’10, $219 for Where is this taking us?, mixed media representation of the Brandeis education
• Brandeis Physics Club,  $225 for Art and Science One, a motion mural created by light and powered by kinetic and sound sculpture
• John Tronsor (Post-baccalaureate) and Nikita Beniaminov '09, $400 for Notice the Similarities, large-scale outdoor installation that reflects similarities between common places in our lives and changes throughout the course of the day
• Bekah Richards ’10, $75 for Who Will Ever Believe in Oaths Again?, digital collage of photography, textures, and text that explores betrayal and transformation
• Amy Tsao ’10, $390 for The "Green" Collection, women’s clothing design and construction using organic and sustainable fabrics
• Danielle Garfinkel ‘09, $300 for Traditional Trademarks, series of batik designs representing food logos and commenting on global disparity in food and nutrition