Redux photographer Rita Leistner and First Nations Playwright Marie Clements have received $200,000.00 in funding in the first round of Vancouver Olympic Games’ initiatives project grants to artists, sponsored by The Arts Partners in Creative Development (APDC) and Presentation House Theatre. The two artists have been commissioned by Presentation House Theatre in Vancouver, Canada, to collaborate on a multi-media, theatrical stage production investigating the controversial life and legacy of photographer Edward Curtis. The two-year development and field-work stage of the project will take the artists and their team to native reserves across Canada and the United States. The play and accompanying photographic exhibition will open to an international audience in Vancouver at Presentation House during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.