National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Spring Grant Announcement

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National Endowment for the Arts
FY 2017 Spring Grant Announcement

State and Jurisdiction List

Project details are accurate as of June 5, 2017. For the most up to date project information, please use
the NEA's online grant search system.

The following categories are included: Art Works, Art Works: Research, Our Town, and Partnerships
(State & Regional). The grant category is listed with each recommended grant. All are organized by
state/jurisdiction followed by city and then by the name of the organization.

Click the state or jurisdiction below to jump to that area of the document.

 Alabama  Kentucky  Oklahoma
 Alaska  Louisiana  Oregon
 American Samoa  Maine  Pennsylvania
 Arizona  Maryland  Puerto Rico
 Arkansas  Massachusetts  Rhode Island
 California  Michigan  South Carolina
 Colorado  Minnesota  South Dakota
 Connecticut  Mississippi  Tennessee
 Delaware  Missouri  Texas
 District of Columbia  Montana  Utah
 Florida  Nebraska  Vermont
 Georgia  Nevada  Virginia
 Guam  New Hampshire  Virgin Islands
 Hawaii  New Jersey  Washington
 Idaho  New Mexico  West Virginia
 Illinois  New York  Wisconsin
 Indiana  North Carolina  Wyoming
 Iowa  North Dakota
 Kansas  Ohio
Alabama
Number of Grants: 10 Total Dollar Amount: $1,015,200

Auburn University Main Campus
$25,000 Auburn, AL
Art Works – Visual Arts
To support the Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project. In collaboration with the Alabama
Department of Corrections, the university will provide visual arts workshops taught by emerging and
established artists for incarcerated men and women in multiple facilities around the state. The
workshops, based on college-level curriculum, will include courses in the fundamentals of drawing,
watercolor, mural arts, and block-cut printing. A touring exhibition will be presented, accompanied by
an anthology of student produced creative works.

Alabama Folklife Association, Inc. (aka Alabama Folklife Association)
$30,000 Birmingham, AL
Art Works – Folk & Traditional Arts
To support One State, Many Traditions, Our Story: A Bicentennial Cultural Initiative. In preparation for
Alabama's bicentennial celebration, folklorists will conduct archival research and fieldwork about the
state's musical traditions and quilting heritage. Tradition bearers will be identified and documented, and
previously unknown material will be preserved. The results of this research will be incorporated into
bicentennial exhibits and curriculum guides for classroom use.

City of Birmingham, Alabama
$100,000 Birmingham, AL
Our Town – Design
To support a masterplan for a new arts and technology complex at Sloss Furnaces National Historic
Landmark. The masterplan will address underutilized space and facilities at the Sloss Furnaces site and
build workforce capacity in Birmingham through site-specific planning and design and arts and
technology workforce development plans. The City of Birmingham, which owns Sloss Furnaces, will
engage artists and the local creative community during the planning process. Sloss Furnaces includes 44
existing buildings and an 1881 iron ore blast furnace on a 15-acre site near downtown Birmingham. It
was listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1981.

Sloss Furnaces Foundation, Inc. (aka Sloss)
$15,000 Birmingham, AL
Art Works – Arts Education
To support the summer youth apprenticeship program. High school students will build artistic,
vocational, and social skills through apprenticeships while learning the processes used to create cast
iron and fabricated steel sculpture with professional artists. Student artwork will be displayed in an
exhibition at the Sloss Furnaces Gallery and at ArtWalk, an annual art festival in downtown Birmingham.

Space One Eleven, Inc. (aka Space One Eleven (SOE))
$25,000 Birmingham, AL
Art Works – Visual Arts
To support an exhibition series featuring work by women artists. Plans for the project include two
exhibitions. The first is a group show anchored by a resident artist-Rosa Naday Garmendia-whose work

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explores social justice issues. The second exhibition will showcase emerging female artists.
Complementing the residency and exhibitions will be panel discussions intended for the general public,
university students, and faculty in which the exhibiting artists, art historians, and activists will explore
topics such as attitudes toward feminist art among women of different generations; the role of artists as
agents of change; and the representation of women in the contemporary art world.

Marshall County Retired Senior Volunteer Program, Incorporated (aka Marshall County RSVP)
$10,000 Guntersville, AL
Art Works – Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Melodies and Musings - Our Appalachian Legacy, a mountain dulcimer workshop series.
Artists will instruct senior citizens in playing the dulcimer in a multi-day workshop. The instructional
program will conclude with a concert of traditional music featuring the instructors and students. The
project will promote health and well-being, including positive psychological and physiological benefits
for the older adults involved.

For an Our Town project in Hobson, AL, see University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa

Alabama Youth Ballet Theatre, Inc.
$10,000 Huntsville, AL
Art Works – Dance
To support Dance Connection. Students are nominated to participate in the annual performing arts
program which reduces economic barriers to arts access. The program provides free or reduced-cost
clothing, equipment, nutrition, and professional instruction during an intensive summer dance program
that ends with a public performance. Eligible students are provided full-year tuition scholarships to the
Alabama Youth Ballet School, which offers additional performance opportunities.

Mobile Symphony, Inc. (aka Mobile Symphony Orchestra)
$10,000 Mobile, AL
Art Works – Music
To support Mobile Symphony Orchestras's Young People's Concerts. Programming will feature an
adaptation of Sergei Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" with Music Director Scott Speck. Tailoring the
classic tale to the Alabama Gulf Coast, the wolf may be a native Alabama animal such as an alligator.
Educational study guides and programs will be presented in elementary schools in Mobile and Baldwin
Counties. The concerts will be presented during the school day for more than 3,000 elementary
schoolchildren.

Alabama State Council on the Arts
$765,200 Montgomery, AL
Partnerships (State & Regional)
To support Partnership Agreement activities associated with carrying out your NEA-approved State
strategic plan.

University of Alabama
$25,000 Tuscaloosa, AL/For a project in Hobson, AL
Our Town – Design
To support PhotoVoices: Cultivating Community, Creating Change in Hobson City, Alabama. The project
will engage experts to teach photography and creative writing skills to youth in the community to create

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a historic narrative of the town. The University of Alabama will partner with Hobson City on this
program. The goal is to stimulate and cultivate community pride in shared history for this town of about

800 residents, most of whom are living below the poverty line.

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Alaska
Number of Grants: 5 Total Dollar Amount: $811,906

Alaska State Council on the Arts
$675,800 Anchorage, AK
Partnerships (State & Regional)
To support Partnership Agreement activities associated with carrying out your NEA-approved State
strategic plan.

Anchorage Symphony Orchestra
$15,000 Anchorage, AK
Art Works – Music
To support Young People's Concerts. In an effort to encourage participation in school instrumental
music programs, concerts will be performed for elementary school students. Working in collaboration
with Anchorage School District music educators, the orchestra will create study materials for classroom
instructors. Teacher workshops also will be offered to prepare students for the concert experience.

Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
$25,000 Anchorage, AK
Art Works – Media Arts
To support a production highlighting Native artists on the radio program "Earthsongs." As many as five
Native rap and hip-hop artists will be profiled for a production that highlights each artist's tribal history,
personal story, and the cultural significance of spoken-word, rap, and hip-hop traditions within the
greater Native community. The production will feature performances by each artist as well as recordings
of outreach events in their local communities, in areas such as Anchorage, Alaska; Santa Fe, New
Mexico; and Billings, Montana. The program will air on "Earthsongs," which has public broadcast
planned through station affiliates of the Native One Voice radio network and other public radio stations
across the country.

Perseverance Theatre, Inc. (aka Perseverance Theatre)
$10,000 Douglas, AK
Art Works – Theater & Musical Theater
To support the development and world premiere of "Snow Child," a new musical by playwright John
Strand, lyricist and co-composer Georgia Stitt, and co-composer Bob Banghart. Adapted from the novel
"The Snow Child" by Eowyn Ivey, and based on a centuries-old Slavic-Nordic folktale, the musical will tell
the story of two newcomers to the territory of Alaska who are tested as they question their resolve and
ultimately fall in love with Alaska's cold beauty. The production will be performed in Juneau and
Anchorage, bringing an Alaskan story to an Alaskan audience.

Alaska Arts Confluence (aka Confluence)
$86,106 Haines, AK
Our Town – Design
To support the community design of an interconnected Portage Cove waterfront. A diverse cross-section
of stakeholders will be engaged in planning a comprehensive design of the unique, 1.6-mile waterfront
between Picture Point and Portage Cove campground. Alaska Arts Confluence will work with Haines
Borough to develop a waterfront plan as part of this process. The goal is to achieve an accessible

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recreational and business Portage Cove waterfront for all 2,500 residents that additionally provides

pedestrian interconnectivity with the entire downtown and invigorates this gateway to Haines.

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American Samoa
Number of Grants: 1 Total Dollar Amount: $286,700

American Samoa Council on Arts, Culture & Humanities
$286,700 Pago Pago, AS
Partnerships (State & Regional)
To support Partnership Agreement activities associated with carrying out your NEA-approved State

strategic plan.

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Arizona
Number of Grants: 17 Total Dollar Amount: $1,296,600

International Sonoran Desert Alliance (aka ISDA)
$25,000 Ajo, AZ
Our Town – Design
To support building authentic community ownership of Ajo's historic town center with music and dance.
The project is a series of performances of folk, traditional, and contemporary Native American and
Latino music and dance. International Sonoran Desert Alliance will partner with Pima County on this
initiative. The goal is to use creativity to build community across longstanding racial and ethnic divisions
between the estimated 3,500 Native American, Latino and Anglo American residents of Ajo.

Nogales Unified School District #1
$35,000 Nogales, AZ
Art Works – Folk & Traditional Arts
To support instruction in mariachi music for youth. Master artists will teach middle and high school
students to play traditional mariachi instruments, such as vihuela, guitarron, violin, trumpet, and harp.
The students will also attend as many as three mariachi band conventions where they will have the
opportunity to perform. Project personnel also will provide repairs of instruments and uniforms.

Act One
$10,000 Phoenix, AZ
Art Works – Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works
To support the Field Trip Program and related activities. Students from Title I schools will experience arts
learning opportunities through educational field trips. Tickets will be provided to a performance or
exhibition and teachers will be equipped with teaching guides to prepare the students prior to the
event. The program will be provide an opportunity for partnering arts organizations, such as the Phoenix
Symphony and Ballet Arizona, to build new audiences.

Arizona Commission on the Arts
$821,600 Phoenix, AZ
Partnerships (State & Regional)
To support Partnership Agreement activities associated with carrying out your NEA-approved State
strategic plan.

Ballet Arizona
$20,000 Phoenix, AZ
Art Works – Dance
To support Ballet Under the Stars, a free outdoor performance series in local parks throughout the
Phoenix metropolitan area. The works performed are included in the company's recent repertoire
and/or will be presented in the upcoming season. In addition, children from local schools will
choreograph their own work under the tutelage of Ballet Arizona dancers through the Class Act
program, and will perform an original dance piece at their local performance. The intention behind
Ballet Under the Stars is to make ballet accessible to individuals from underserved communities who
may not be able to otherwise attend ballet performances.

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City of Phoenix, Arizona (On behalf of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture)
$30,000 Phoenix, AZ
Art Works – Local Arts Agencies
To support youth programming through the Phoenix Neighborhood Arts Grants. The Phoenix Youth Arts
Council, a program of the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture (POAC), will develop a funding program to
provide grants for collaborative projects intended to increase community and cultural engagement with
young people. A series of town halls and use of POAC's cultural assets mapping tool will inform the
council's process, as they work to facilitate creative partnerships among neighborhood organizations,
businesses, artists, and arts organizations. Goals for the grant program include prioritization of the
needs and interests of Phoenix youth and addressing the disparity of arts funding in neighborhoods
outside of the downtown and midtown cores. The selected projects are expected to include significant
intergenerational community engagement, high artistic quality, and collaborative processes with
multiple partners.

Phoenix Art Museum
$45,000 Phoenix, AZ
Art Works – Museum
To support the exhibition "Valeska Soares: Any Moment Now." The mid-career survey exhibition of
Soares' (b.1957) work, the first at a U.S. museum since 2003, will feature approximately 45 multi-media
works, sculptures, video, installations, and performance pieces created by the Brazilian artist during the
past two decades. Weaving together the themes of memory, time, and the sensorial, Soares creates
poetic works that encourage visitor participation and also engage with international art traditions and
world literature. The exhibition will be accompanied by a variety of public programs with the artist
presented on-site and at venues throughout the community.

Release the Fear (aka Release the Fear)
$15,000 Phoenix, AZ
Art Works – Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works
To support Bridging Possibilities workshops. Youth in schools, treatment centers, and correctional
facilities will participate in arts workshops. Professional teaching artists and facilitators will use inquiry-
based learning tools to move students through the arts learning curriculum. Visual arts, music, and
storytelling exercises will provide youth from underserved communities with different ways to explore
issues of peer pressure, gangs, bullying, conflict, and anger.

West Valley Arts Council
$10,000 Surprise, AZ
Art Works – Local Arts Agencies
To support the West Valley Performing Arts Series. As many as three separate performing arts series will
be presented through a partnership with the City of Surprise Arts Commission. Two series, Lunchtime
Theater and HQ After Dark, will introduce audiences to local arts venues and artists through live theater
and music performances. The third series, Arts Advantage, is intended to serve elementary school
students through school performances. Past performances have included traditional storytelling and
Native dances by Yellow Bird Indian Productions; "Opera-Antics," an introduction to opera; and artist
Keith Johnson's exploration of African folklore. All three series will be expanded to address an increased
demand for affordable, accessible, live art performances.

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Arizona State University
$100,000 Tempe, AZ
Our Town – Design
To support The Creative Placemaking Policy Fellows program, a Knowledge Building project. The Arizona
State University's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts will partner with the Center for
Performance and Civic Practice to establish a Creative Placemaking Policy Fellows program. The program
will convene practitioners who have led successful partnerships between the arts and community
development fields. Fellows will meet to exchange knowledge and document lessons learned. The
aggregated findings will identify potential barriers to successful creative placemaking and strategies for
overcoming them, and find ways to infuse the work across the community development field.
Additionally, fellows will each produce a training tool, such as a podcast, video, or piece of writing, for
dissemination. This program complements fieldwide efforts to build more effective cross-sector
knowledge exchange, and to more deeply understand the role of higher education institutions in
advancing creative placemaking field development. As many as eight fellows will complete the program
during the course of the grant project period.

Southwest Folklife Alliance, Inc. (aka Tucson Meet Yourself)
$45,000 Tucson, AZ
Art Works – Folk & Traditional Arts
To support statewide programs and activities in the areas of fieldwork, apprenticeships, and
professional development. In addition to continued fieldwork to identify folk artists and tradition
bearers, SFA will embark on increasing the number of pairs in its master-apprentice program; convene
and offer training through the Heritage Artists Professional Development Institute; implement intensive
training camps for professionals; and launch the Yaqui Verbal Arts/Oral Tradition program. SFA also will
continue its End-of-Life Continuum initiative in partnership with hospices, as well as complete edits and
a reissue of an educational curriculum in partnership with Smithsonian Institution.

Southwest Folklife Alliance, Inc. (aka Tucson Meet Yourself)
$35,000 Tucson, AZ
Art Works – Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Tucson Meet Yourself Folklife Festival. In its 44th year, the festival will present
performances, exhibits, and demonstrations exploring a wide range of family, ethnic, regional, and
occupational folklife communities in Southern Arizona and Northern Mexico. A highlight of the festival
will be exhibits and demonstrations celebrating the first three years of the Southwest Folklife Alliance's
master/apprentice program.

True Concord Voices and Orchestra
$25,000 Tucson, AZ
Art Works – Music
To support True Concord's performance project, American Rhythm. The project will feature the chamber
orchestra and choir in concert programs featuring works by American composers. Programming will
include a new work by composer Gerald Near for choir, orchestra, and soprano based on poems and
letters of American poet Emily Dickinson. Another concert program will honor U.S. service personnel
and veterans with performances of works such as Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man,"
Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" and Jake Runestad's "Dreams of the Fallen." The concerts will be
presented in several locations in Tucson.

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