Wexner Center And Ohio State University Receive Creative Campus Grant

From an application field of 140 campuses, the Wexner Center for the Arts and The Ohio State University have been awarded a $140,000 Creative Campus Innovations grant by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters to support the development of New York-based theater company The Builders Association's ROAD TRIP (Working Title), a multimedia theater work looking at the contemporary foreclosure crisis through the lens of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.

The Builders are wrapping up a week on campus talking to Ohio State students, faculty, and staff in the fields of business, architecture, history, theater, and more as part of the research and development of the piece; they'll be back on campus multiple times over the course of the next year before the show premieres at Ohio State in October of 2011. The grant, awarded to only six campuses across the country, are funded with support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

 

 

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