State District Organization Name Discipline / Field City Project Description Fiscal Year Grant Amount To support the translation from the German of "The Art of Topiary," selected poems by German poet Jan Wagner. Wagner (b. 1971) is the award-winning author of six poetry collections, as well as a translator of Anglo-American poetry, an essayist, editor, and literary critic. His poetry has been translated into 30 DC 0 Keplinger, David Literature Washington 2017 $12,500 languages. Not readily categorized, Wagner writes both formal and free verse poems. This collection includes a sonnet about a rhino, a long haiku series about rain barrels, and a sestina with the book's title poem, in which the repeated words describe a garden that eats its creator.

To support the translation from the Czech of the novel "Heaven Has No Ground" by Hana Andronikova. This is the final novel of Andronikova (1967-2011), who died of cancer less than a year after it was published in 2011 and just weeks before receiving, for the second time, the Czech Republic's highest literary prize, the Magnesia Litera Award. The bestselling, autobiographical novel depicts the author's early decision to forego conventional medical treatments in search of a more holistic solution, and describes her DC 0 Kostovski, Roman Literature Washington 2017 $12,500 subsequent journeys to consult a shaman in the Amazon jungle, travel through the Nevada desert, and climb Israel's Mount Masada in pursuit of some spiritual insight that would allow her to cope with her fate and, ultimately, return to Prague to fight for her life. The story is told in large part from diary entries, email correspondence, and Skype transcriptions of conversations with her family and friends, interspersed with stream of consciousness, dreams, and hallucinations or visions.

To support the translation from the Spanish of "Fauna," a play by Argentine writer Romina Paula. Paula (b. 1979) is a critically acclaimed playwright, film actor, theater director, and novelist. Paula's dramaturgical work has toured the international theater circuit, premiering in Brazil, Chile, Spain, France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Germany, but none of her plays have been translated into English. "Fauna" centers on the making of a film DC 0 Werth, Brenda Literature Washington 2018 $12,500 that will never take place. The film brings together a daughter, a son, an actress, and a director in the attempt to tell the story of Fauna, a wild but well-read, otherworldly being who over the course of her lifetime becomes Fauno. Featuring dialogue with such figures as Shakespeare, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Dorothea Lange, the play explores how to tell the story of one's life and how to decipher where reality ends and fiction begins. To support the Creative Counties Placemaking Challenge, a Knowledge Building project. The National Association of Counties Research Foundation will facilitate networks of county officials and arts professionals to advance creative placemaking in rural and mid-sized communities. Through in-person workshops National Association of including skill building sessions, panel discussions, and tours of DC 1 Counties Research Design Washington successful creative placemaking projects, the project will focus on 2017 $100,000 Foundation county-level leaders to build creative placemaking capacity among local governments. NACoRF will collaborate with Americans for the Arts to develop workshop curricula and deliver training webinars. During the grant period, the project will engage approximately 48 participants representing communities with populations no greater than 250,000 residents. To support the creation of a new contemporary ballet by Artistic Director Diane Coburn Bruning. The piece will be based on a DC 1 Chamber Dance Project Dance Washington Nordic legend and will feature a commissioned score by The Red 2017 $10,000 Clay Ramblers. Bruning will layer elements of storytelling in the work. To support residencies for emerging artists with a focus on public participatory programs. Through an open juried process, as many as eight U.S. and four international artists focusing on social DC 1 S&R Foundation Artist Communities Washington 2017 $25,000 practice art will be chosen. As part of their residency, U.S. and international artists will work with local high school students and artists from the area. To support the publication of "Design for Good." Published by Island Press and written by architect John Cary, who helped to popularize the public interest design movement, this book will Island Press-Center for show how thoughtful design can influence the respect we give to DC 1 Design Washington 2017 $20,000 Resource Economics others and ourselves. Diverse case studies will examine design and architecture projects that address social, economic, and environmental issues and offer people a dignified experience of the place. To support the CapitalBop Traveling Loft concert series and educational activities. Headline artists will perform in double bills with leading D.C.-based performers at various venues around D.C. DC 1 CapitalBop, Inc. Music Washington 2017 $12,500 such as THEARC, the Fridge, Capital Fringe, and New York University's Abramson Family Auditorium. Free master classes for youth are included. DC 1 dog & pony dc Theater Washington N/A 2017 $10,000 To support a photography education and youth empowerment program. During the school year and in the summer, high school students from underserved neighborhoods will explore their artistic and leadership potential in their schools and communities through photography and creative writing workshops led by DC 1 Critical Exposure Arts Education Washington 2017 $15,000 teaching artists. In collaboration with classroom educators in D.C. public schools, teaching artists will guide students to create their own visual stories of identity and perseverance. Student work will be exhibited in galleries, libraries, and other public spaces throughout D.C.

To support the creation and presentation of new dance works. Artistic Director Dana Tai Soon Burgess will create three new dance works, each inspired by three new exhibitions at the Moving Forward: National Portrait Gallery: "The Face of Battle: Americans At War, Contemporary Asian DC 1 Dance Washington 9/11 to Now," "The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American 2017 $10,000 American Dance Workers," and "One Life: Sylvia Plath." The company will hold Company open rehearsals, enabling museum visitors to watch Burgess and the dancers create and rehearse. The new dances will be performed multiple times at the museum, free-of-charge.

To support Life Stories, an in-school theater residency program for youth. Through improvisation, storytelling, script development, scene study, and acting, middle and high school students from underserved communities will explore social issues and develop teamwork and communication skills. Guided by professional DC 1 Theatre Lab Arts Education Washington 2017 $20,000 teaching artists, students will create original work using one of three models: monologue, films featuring improvised and scripted scenes, or fully staged live performances. The project will culminate in a public performance and facilitated discussion at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

To support youth programs and the Split This Rock Poetry Festival. A biannual event, the festival hosts writers from across the nation for a long weekend of workshops, panels, readings, and a book fair. Committed poets include Kwame Dawes and Solmaz Sharif, DC 1 Split This Rock, Inc. Literature Washington and Split This Rock will present a short documentary in celebration 2017 $40,000 of the festival's tenth year. Youth programs include after-school poetry clubs, a youth slam team, writing workshops, and open mic events, helping students to develop artistic skills and learn the value of their own creative voices. To support performances of a concert of opera excerpts that will musically explore Versailles during the reigns of Louis XIV, XV, and XVI. The concert will feature three soloists, a small chorus, and a period instrument chamber orchestra. Performances are DC 1 Opera Lafayette Opera Washington 2017 $20,000 scheduled to occur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium as part of he MetLiveArts series (New York City) and George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium (Washington, D.C.) in spring 2018. To support the 2017 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital. Held in the spring with events programmed around the D.C. metropolitan area, the festival presents films including Environmental Film documentary, narrative, animated, experimental, and short films DC 1 Festival in the Nation's Media Arts Washington about environmental issues. Filmmakers, scientists, 2017 $20,000 Capital environmental experts, and educators are invited to speak at the screenings in alignment with the festival's mission of advancing public understanding of the environment through the power of film. To support a concert opera production of "Leonore" by composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution and fervent nationalism, Beethoven composed his only opera in 1805 as a response to the social and political climate of the time. The opera tells the story of Leonore, a noble-woman of Seville, who disguises herself as a male prison guard named Fidelio Washington Concert DC 1 Opera Washington in order to rescue her husband Florestan, a political prisoner, from 2017 $15,000 Opera death. In 1814, after the Napoleonic invasions in Germany and Austria, Beethoven revised the work, which led to the creation of the final (and most well-known) version, "Fidelio." The creative team will include conductor Antony Walker, soprano Marjorie Owen in the title role, soprano Celena Shafer, and tenor Simon O'Neill. To support performing arts elements of the From Sifrs to Ciphers series. American and international artists will explore contributions made to the hip-hop culture by Muslims. Planned Presenting & Words Beats & Life activities include theatrical productions, a DJ showcase, dance DC 1 Multidisciplinary Washington 2017 $45,000 Incorporated performances, spoken-word and poetry recitations, story circles, Works and workshops. Events will take place at venues throughout Washingon, D.C., including at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Busboys and Poets, among others. To support the creation of guidebooks and other promotional material for the What's Out There program. The program will feature designed landscapes in San Antonio, TX, Raleigh, NC, and Cultural Landscape Portland, ME. Working with local individuals and organizations, DC 1 Design Washington 2018 $35,000 Foundation TCLF will identify appropriate properties, conduct research, develop documentation, and post to its online database, What's Out There. In addition to online content, TCLF will produce illustrated guidebooks with maps and detailed narrative texts.

To support a conference in the field of creative aging. NCCA will collaborate with the Gerontological Society of America to host a cross-sector convening of professionals in the creative aging, medical, nursing, and social and psychological sciences fields. Presenting & National Center for Conference sessions will explore themes of lifelong learning, DC 1 Multidisciplinary Washington 2018 $30,000 Creative Aging community engagement, arts and technology, capacity building, Works research and policy, and workforce development. Additionally, artists working in the realm of creative aging will be able to participate in the conference through performances and exhibitions.

To support the 2018 DC Environmental Film Festival and related public programming. The festival supports travel of visiting artists, educators, and special guests to present documentary, narrative, animated, experimental, and short works in alignment with the festival's mission of advancing public understanding of the Environmental Film environment through the power of film. Festival activities will take DC 1 Festival in the Nation's Media Arts Washington place at a variety of venues in partnership with organizations such 2018 $15,000 Capital as the National Gallery of Art and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Many festival screenings are free to the public, and include special programs for youth. Recently screened films at the festival include "The Seer: A Portrait of Wendell Berry" by Laura Dunn, "The Eagle Huntress" by Otto Bell, and "In Pursuit of Silence" by Patrick Shen. To support the CityDance Conservatory Professional Guest Artist Project. Pre-professional high school dance students will study diverse dance styles and artistic viewpoints with nationally and internationally known guest choreographers and dance companies inncluding Dance Theatre of Harlem, Koresh Dance Company, and DC 1 CityDance Ensemble, Inc. Arts Education Washington Gallim Dance. Guest artists will lead master classes, mentor 2017 $15,000 students, and create choreography in a broad range of genres such as jazz, modern, ballet, hip-hop, and world dance forms. The audition-based conservatory program will prepare culturally diverse young dancers for professional careers in contemporary dance.

To support musical performances as well as educational activities and audience engagement events at the DC Jazz Festival. To support musical performances as well as educational activities and audience engagement events at the DC Jazz Festival. Proposed headliners for the Jazz Family themed multi-day festival include siblings Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar; Trombone Shorty with brother James Andrews (trumpet) and cousins Glen David Andrews (trombone) and Derrick Tabb (drums); vocalist NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater and her daughter, singer China Moses; Big Chief Donald Harrison with his nephew, trumpeter Christian Scott as well as siblings Carmen Lundy (vocals) and Curtis DC 1 DC Jazz Festival Music Washington Lundy (bass). Plans include more than 125 free and ticketed 2018 $35,000 performances by more than 150 District-based jazz artists as well as international musicians. Events will take place at as many as 50 venues across town including the Howard Theatre, the Kennedy Center, and Yards Park as well as under the Jazz'n the Hoods umbrella at various clubs, hotels, and restaurants. Additional activities may include the DCJazzPrix competition for emerging jazz bands; Meet the Artist sessions; master classes; and student concerts at locations such as the Sitar Arts Center, the Atlas Performing Arts Center and The Yards. JazzAlive series performances and humanities programs will take place at the University of the District of Columbia. To support a series of interactive trainings and workshops for transportation professionals, artists, and art organizations on creative placemaking, a Knowledge Building project. Transportation for America will partner with Americans for the Arts to lead trainings to teach transportation professionals to engage with artists and arts organizations and vice versa, equipping them with the requisite skills to complete creative placemaking projects. Knowledge will be delivered through DC 1 Smart Growth America Design Washington 2017 $75,000 trainings in three competitively selected cities, and will be applied to to specific transportation issues, such as improving pedestrian safety and reducing disruptions caused by road construction. Anticipated benefits include local policy improvements to facilitate artist/transportation professional collaborations and streamlined permitting processes. Trainings will form the bases for web-based toolkits that will help others to lead similar efforts in their own communities.

To support a production of "Broken Glass" by Arthur Miller at Theater J. The play uses the story of a fraying marriage between a Jewish man and his wife to explore themes of Jewish-American identity. The work examines Jewish assimilation into American Edlavitch Jewish culture, how Americans grapple with events happening in the DC 1 Community Center of Theater Washington world around us, the complexity of communication in marriage, 2017 $10,000 Washington DC and the human body's intrinsic response to fear. The production will be supported by audience engagement programming designed to deepen the audience's connection to Miller's classic, and to help the production reach diverse audiences in the D.C. metro area. To support a performance and community engagement project, The project will include performances, a film, an art exhibition, and educational events. Conducted by Music Director Angel Gil- Ordonez, directed by Artistic Director Joseph Horowitz, and planned in consultation with Vladimir Feltsman, programming will Post-Classical Ensemble, explore Russian music concurrent with the Russian Revolution of DC 1 Music Washington 2017 $30,000 Inc. 1917. Repertoire will include works by Russian composers of the 1920s. In addition, the orchestra will perform works by contemporary Russian composer Victor Kissine (b. 1953), who will participate in the project. The performances, lectures, and community events will be held at several venues around Washington, D.C. To support the Rolling World Premieres Program. The program provides residency and production support to playwrights and theaters to collaborate on a new work. Playwrights are National New Play guaranteed a minimum of three full productions of a new work DC 1 Theater Washington 2018 $40,000 Network, Ltd. with different artistic teams and casts, in different venues and cities, allowing for refinement of the play with each successive production. NNPN provides financial and administrative support to the partnering theaters and playwright. To support a year-round multidisciplinary arts education program for youth. The art-making component of the project is informed by a curriculum that develops students' creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration skills. Students will attend DC 1 Sitar Arts Center Arts Education Washington professional musical performances and participate in field trips to 2017 $25,000 various cultural institutions in Washington, D.C. Artistic partners for the project include the Washington Ballet, the DC Jazz Festival, Meridian Hill Pictures, Washington Performing Arts, and Young Playwrights' Theater. To support the Black History Month Tour. Performances of stepping, an African-American traditional dance form that combines polyrhythmic, percussive footsteps, claps, body Step Afrika! USA Folk & Traditional DC 1 Washington DC percussion, and spoken-word, will tour college campuses and 2017 $10,000 Incorporated Arts performing arts centers across the country. Scheduled to coincide with Black History Month, the artists will offer workshops and master classes. To support the First Music program, providing music instruction free-of-charge to young children in underserved neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. Infants, pre-Kindergarten, and elementary aged students will participate in a 36-week music curriculum based on the early childhood methodologies of Orff, Kodaly, and Dalcroze that nurture the development of cognitive, social, and motor DC 1 Levine Music, Inc. Arts Education Washington 2017 $10,000 skills. During class sessions at daycare and school sites across the city, students, their teachers, and daycare providers will explore music through singing, movement, children's literature, and rhythm instruments. Music instructors will focus on sensory learning and encourage the children to develop skills in many areas, including rhythm, pitch, and expressive qualities. To support free music instruction for young children. Infants, pre- K, and elementary-aged students in underserved D.C. neighborhoods will participate in a music curriculum that nurtures the development of cognitive, social, and motor skills. During class sessions at daycares and school sites across the city, students, their teachers, and daycare providers will explore music through DC 1 Levine Music, Inc. Arts Education Washington 2018 $15,000 singing, movement, and rhythm instruments. Attention to developmental issues is a high priority of the program, which is designed to support sequential learning of musical concepts. Repertoire draws from diverse styles and genres, including traditional children's songs and chants, folk music, world music, classical music, and jazz. To support the creation of guidebooks and other promotional material for the "What's Out There" program. The program will feature designed landscapes in Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, and Nashville. Working with local individuals and organizations, The Cultural Landscape DC 1 Design Washington Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) will identify appropriate 2017 $35,000 Foundation properties, conduct research, develop documentation, and post to its online database, What's Out There. In addition to online content, TCLF will produce illustrated guidebooks with maps and detailed narrative texts. To support the Positive Directions Through Dance program and Washington Reflections Dance Company. PDTD is a year-long arts learning program intended to serve at-risk youth with dance Dance Institute of training, educational services, life skills workshops, workforce DC 1 Dance Washington 2017 $10,000 Washington development, and performance opportunities. The project also supports performances of the Washington Reflections Dance Company, a contemporary ballet/modern dance ensemble that promotes the voice of the inner city. To support a Creative in Residence program, which will engage an artist to educate, inspire, and empower audiences to better understand the built environment. A local creative practitioner National Building from visual and performing arts, literature, storytelling, design, or DC 1 Design Washington 2018 $25,000 Museum media will be invited for a three-month residency. The artist/designer will have the opportunity to create site-specific work inspired by the museum and present public programs or workshops that engage a targeted audience. To support an artist residency at the Philip Johnson Glass House. The program, hosted at the iconic modernist property, will engage an artist to create new works of art that are inspired by and reflective of the site. Philip Johnson and David Whitney designed National Trust for Historic the 49-acre site to experiment with new forms of architecture and DC 1 Preservation in the United Design Washington 2017 $20,000 to showcase the work of both established and emerging artists, States including Frank Stella, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, David Salle, and Cindy Sherman. The National Trust is partnering with Chicago- based United States Artists (USA) to select the artist for the residency program. To support an artist residency by the Kronos Quartet at Washington Performing Arts Society. The San Francisco-based ensemble will participate in the WPA Embassy Adoption Program. Embassies in Washington, D.C., will be paired with fifth- and sixth- graders citywide for arts-integrated global learning. The two-year Washington Performing project is part of a five-year collaborative residency with the WPA, DC 1 Music Washington 2017 $35,000 Arts Society during which Kronos will commission and premiere 50 self- contained works through five performance seasons (2015-16 through 2019-20). Digital versions of the scores, recordings, and curricular materials will be available free online. Kronos and WPA will jointly create master classes, workshops and residencies anchored by performances. To support an orchestral residency project. In partnership with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington Performing Arts will host several orchestras in residence in the nation's capital. The program will offer $25 fixed-ticket prices for the concert-hall performances and education and community engagement programs designed to promote access and remove Washington Performing DC 1 Music Washington economic barriers to participate. Four ensembles will participate 2018 $42,500 Arts Society in the six-day SHIFT music festival: Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (Texas), Albany Symphony (New York), Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (Indiana), and National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.). Related audience engagement activities such as performances and events will be held throughout the Washington, D.C. area. To support a collective impact project, the State Policy Pilot Initiative. A report of findings from a three-year study that began in 2014 will be published to inform state and local-level decision making and coalition building along with online videos, sample policy briefs, and guidelines for evaluation. These tools and resources also will be presented at conferences and symposiums across the country. The coalition of partners will include the Arts Education Partnership (AEP), the Education Commission of the Americans for the Arts, DC 1 Arts Education Washington States (ECS), the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education 2017 $100,000 Inc. Network (KCAAEN), and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA). Additional collaborators will include the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE), the State Education Agencies Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE), the State Arts Action Network (SAAN), the United States Urban Arts Federation (USUAF, as well as state chapters of each of the discipline-specific national associations and other state-level organizations.

To support a new professional development initiative intended to assist local arts agencies nationwide in their efforts to support individual artists in ways that are both effective and equitable. Programming will include elements such as virtual instruction, Americans for the Arts, DC 1 Local Arts Agencies Washington webinars, digital resources, peer networking, and a convening at 2018 $35,000 Inc. the Americans for the Arts (AFTA) annual conference. The need for this type of training was identified through AFTA's 2015 Local Arts Agency (LAA) Census, which revealed that as many as 1,500 LAA professionals are facilitating artist-specific programming.

To support Giving Bach to the Community, a music education and community engagement project. The chorus and instrumentalists DC 1 Washington Bach Consort Music Washington will present a youth education program for schoolchildren, pre- 2017 $10,000 concert discussions with a Bach scholar, and a free noontime cantata series to residents of the greater D.C. area.

To support a choral performance project celebrating the centennial of American composer Leonard Bernstein's birth. The chorus will perform a concert of Bernstein's choral works with percussion accompaniment at the D.C. venue LIVE! @ 10th G. In DC 1 Washington Chorus, Inc. Music Washington 2018 $15,000 addition, the project will include programming and educational events in the week prior to the concert performance. Community engagement activities will include a free public rehearsal as well as in-school presentations and free tickets for youth. To support services and technical assistance to the choral field. Activities will include an annual conference, the Chorus Management Institute, the Conducting Academy, publications, a webinar series, and leadership development forums for chorus Chorus America DC 1 Music Washington managers and leaders in the field. The annual Chorus Operations 2018 $90,000 Association Survey and Report will provide comparisons of operational practices and financial capacity among choruses of the same type and budget size. Published quarterly, "The Voice" magazine will highlight important issues and news for the choral field.

To support a workshop and public performance of "The 272" by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm at The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics. Chisholm is a Georgetown University student who is a descendant of one of the 272 slaves sold by the Jesuit Order in Maryland in 1838 to keep the university afloat. Employing research and oral history, the play will dramatize his DC 1 Georgetown University Theater Washington journey of discovery, the temporal nature of forgiveness, and our 2018 $10,000 present-day connection to a complex history. Campus Working Groups on Slavery, students, clergy, campus leaders, and the descendants of the 272 slaves will collaborate on the project. Communities served will include students, the Washington, D.C., population, and the descendants in rural Louisiana where much of the play is set.

To support the Framework Panel Series. A partnership with Washington-area cultural institutions, the series will promote critical dialogue about contemporary visual arts, educate emerging artists, and engage audiences through moderated DC 1 Transformer, Inc. Visual Arts Washington discussions with a diverse range of leaders in the field. Topics for 2017 $15,000 the series will include artists with disabilities, the intersection of art and science, and the rise of the "Creative Class"-artists, the maker movement, and creative entrepreneurs and its impact on the economy and place. To support the expansion of an online educational platform which uses music as a tool to teach math and science, in partnership with MusEDWorks. A series of free curricula, play-based games, apps, and other online resources will be developed in collaboration with national math, science, and music experts. Thelonious Monk Institute DC 1 Creativity Connects Washington Topics may include the study of proportion, ratio, and common 2017 $90,000 of Jazz multiples; the performance of rhythmic patterns by clapping and drumming; and lessons that encourage improvisation and spontaneity. New content will be piloted in public school districts in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Boston, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. To support the Peer-to-Peer Jazz Education Tour. The institute will connect young musicians from the nation's leading public performing arts high schools with renowned jazz musicians for two one-week tours to San Diego, California; Fargo, North Dakota Thelonious Monk Institute and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The touring students may be asked DC 1 Music Washington 2017 $55,000 of Jazz to conduct school assembly programs, teach master classes, and engage in informal performances for their peers. Additionally,each group of touring musicians will present at least one public concert in a jazz club or other performance venue in their respective tour cities.

To support a production of Shakespeare's "Macbeth." Directed by Liesl Tommy, the production will be set in a developing country facing a leadership transition, and will examine the internal and external influences that can expose the vulnerability of a nation undergoing tremendous change. The play is filled with characters DC 1 Shakespeare Theatre Theater Washington facing life-altering decisions, with political and personal 2017 $35,000 consequences, and the resulting domino effect of such decisions. The theater will produce a full array of complementary engagement programming such as discussions with scholars and artists, pre- and post-show discussions, a podcast of artist interviews, and a full-color dramaturgical magazine.

To support the continued development of the Artist Training in Presenting & National Center for Arts and Aging Toolkit. In order to update and improve the online DC 1 Multidisciplinary Washington 2017 $15,000 Creative Aging toolkit, NCCA will augment and upgrade the existing platform to Works enhance user interactivity, experience, and learning.

To support professional and leadership development activities for the presenting field. APAP will spearhead a leadership Presenting & development program for artists as well as offer professional Association of Performing DC 1 Multidisciplinary Washington development activities for artists, presenters, agents-managers, 2017 $55,000 Arts Presenters, Inc. Works and others. Best practices from think tanks will guide the development of an applied leadership program, the Leadership Fellows Program for Artists. To support a production of Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters," directed by Jackson Gay, and the simultaneous world premiere production of "No Sisters," a new play written and directed by Aaron Posner. The productions will begin simultaneously in adjoining theaters, with the characters not on stage in one DC 1 Studio Theatre, Inc. Theater Washington 2017 $20,000 production appearing in the other. The productions will share characters, costumes, and a multiethnic cast. This entwined structure is designed to suggest the simultaneous lives occurring offstage in both productions, and to magnify Chekhov's themes of longing, loneliness, and perseverance. To support artist fees for a community outreach and educational Children's Chorus of project. Students from underserved communities will participate DC 1 Music Washington 2017 $10,000 Washington in SING DC, a program of free after-school instruction culminating in performances for peers and family.

To support DC JazzFest at The Yards. The multi-day citywide festival will include a DC JazzFest at the Yards extravaganza at the Yards Park, a family-friendly outdoor venue overlooking the Anacostia River. Washington DC-based and internationally- DC 1 DC Jazz Festival Music Washington renowned musicians will be featured in free-of-charge and 2017 $30,000 ticketed performances. Confirmed artists will include The Robert Glasper Experiment, Kenny Garrett, Jacob Collier, Kandace Springs, Gregory Porter, Lori Williams, and the New Century Jazz Quintet. National Assembly of DC 1 State & Regional Washington N/A 2017 $880,720 State Arts Agencies To support a production of "Ragtime." The Tony Award-winning musical presents an intrinsically American story about the search for the American dream and spotlights challenging social issues that the nation struggles with today. Set in the early 20th- DC 1 Ford's Theatre Society Theater Washington century, the prejudices and discrimination immigrants and 2017 $15,000 minorities faced in our melting pot nation are illuminated through the lens of three families. Audiences will be urged to reexamine the hardships previous generations endured in order to create a livelihood in America. To support the JASON + Concert Series. Curated with the intent to expose audiences to collaborative approaches to art creation and performance, the series will encompass three distinct multidisciplinary performance events in various Kennedy Center venues. In JASON + Georgia, trumpeter Jason Moran will play alongside experimental singer-songwriter Georgia Anne John F. Kennedy Center Muldrow's expressive vocals. In the Washington, D.C. premiere of DC 1 Music Washington 2017 $70,000 for the Performing Arts the multimedia work Reanimation, Moran will collaborate with visual and performance artist Joan Jonas on an immersive visual and musical experience. In JASON + Theaster Gates, Moran and installation artist and sculptor Theaster Gates will present their collaborative work Looks of a Lot which features blues compositions by Moran presented alongside reimagined stage elements designed by Gates. To support the exhibition "Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party" and accompanying catalogue. An examination of the evolution of this iconic work by French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) will delve into the artist's process through a presentation of the painting alongside approximately 60 related DC 1 Phillips Collection Museums Washington 2017 $25,000 works by artists such as Edgar Degas, Gustave Caillebotte, and Edouard Manet. An interactive display of the findings from an in- depth technical study will complement the exhibition. The museum will develop a virtual experience that will allow visitors to step into and explore the painting. To support the design of an Orientation Gallery. The customized multimedia space will enable visitors to better understand and learn about America's achievements in architecture, design, urban National Building DC 1 Design Washington planning, engineering, and construction before they visit the 2017 $30,000 Museum museum's temporary exhibitions. The gallery is being designed in collaboration with interactive media design firm Local Projects and architecture firm STUDIOS Architecture.

To support a production of "Familiar" by Danai Gurira. The play tells the story of a Midwestern family originally from Zimbabwe preparing for the marriage of their daughter, a first-generation American. Tensions erupt among extended family members when Woolly Mammoth the daughter decides that she wants to observe a traditional DC 1 Theater Washington 2018 $35,000 Theatre Company Zimbabwean wedding ritual. The play explores issues including cross-cultural communication, race relations, immigration, and the relationship between personal agency and responsibility to others. In partnership with local organizations, the theater will program diverse community engagement programs. To support a production of "The Wolves" by Sarah DeLappe, related community engagement activities, and developmental support of a new play. "The Wolves" follows an undefeated girls' soccer team over successive Saturdays during indoor winter soccer season, exploring violence and teamwork in adolescence DC 1 Studio Theatre, Inc. Theater Washington and youth athletics. Community engagement activities will include 2018 $35,000 student matinees, pre-show workshops with student audiences, post-show discussions, and partnerships with DC SCORES and the YWCA National Capital Area, as well as the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. In tandem with support of "The Wolves," support also will be provided to DeLappe for workshops of a new play. District of Columbia DC 1 Commission on the Arts State & Regional Washington N/A 2017 $710,600 and Humanities To support LAF's Case Study Investigation (CSI) program. CSI teams, consisting of landscape architecture faculty, student research assistants, and selected practitioners, conduct intensive on-site research and analysis on specific installed landscapes, resulting in final case study briefs that are peer reviewed, edited, Landscape Architecture DC 1 Design Washington published, and promoted. Throughout the year, LAF hosts 2017 $25,000 Foundation webinars on the program and uses the findings to guide LAF's larger research initiatives and to add key content to LAF's Landscape Performance Series. The purpose of CSI is to generate more compelling evidence of the critical role that landscape architecture plays in creating sustainable communities.

To support a series of concerts featuring NEA Jazz Masters and other legendary musicians. As many as three Celebrating the Legends concerts will be curated to showcase master musicians, including several NEA Jazz Masters, in order to engage jazz enthusiasts and draw new audiences. Confirmed performers are NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston, who will present a tribute to John F. Kennedy Center musician, composer, and band director James Reese Europe, DC 1 Music Washington 2018 $65,000 for the Performing Arts whose World War I band is credited with introducing the European continent to jazz music; NEA Jazz Master Carla Bley, who will lead the Liberation Music Orchestra in a celebration of the life and music of bassist, composer, educator and fellow NEA Jazz Master Charlie Haden, who had founded the Orchestra in 1969; and Philip Glass who will perform his work 20 Etudes along with jazz pianist Jason Moran and as many as three other pianists. To support the creation of a new work about domestic violence in partnership with Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care, with touring performances and related activities. Theater artist Elia Arce will conduct interviews with survivors of abuse who have volunteered to participate in the program. Arce will work with the participants to create and perform in a new theatrical work based on the collected stories. Personal details will be altered to ensure GALA Inc., Grupo de anonymity for the safety and security of the survivors. DC 1 Creativity Connects Washington 2017 $22,500 Artistas Latinoamericanos Caseworkers from the Domestic Violence Program support groups at Mary's Center will be available throughout the duration of the project to facilitate and address any counseling issues that may arise during the interview or rehearsal process. After premiering at GALA, the project will then tour to clinics, counseling centers, and shelters in the DC metro area. Post-performance discussions with project participants, Arce, and trained caseworkers from Mary's Center and other counseling facilities will be offered.

To support a production of "Don Juan Tenorio" by 19th-century Spanish author Jose Zorrilla. The infamous Don Juan, a character that has endured for centuries, has provoked questions about good, evil, retribution, and morality. Zorrilla's writing includes themes of emotion, danger, intrigue, and religion. The plot will be transposed from Spain to the Buenos Aires of the late 19th GALA Inc., Grupo de century. An adaptation and translation of the play will be created DC 1 Theater Washington 2017 $35,000 Artistas Latinoamericanos for bilingual audiences. Performances will be in Spanish with projected English surtitles at each performance. The theater will prepare bilingual Study Guides containing background on the author, play, and historical context, as well as related activities that will be distributed to participating schools before they attend the performance and student matinee programs will include talkbacks. To support How to Design Culturally Complete Streets, a conference organized by Transportation for America. This new conference will facilitate learning amongst artists, designers, and transportation planners on how to create public spaces that prioritize people, safety, and uniqueness of place. Programming DC 1 Smart Growth America Design Washington includes panels and interactive workshops for practitioners 2018 $20,000 working towards integrating arts, design, and culture into transportation infrastructure, with a particular emphasis on equitable development. The program will also include a demonstration project in Nashville. The conference will recur annually in mid-sized cities across the U.S. To support performances of "Candide" by composer Leonard Bernstein. The production will be the organization's contribution to the Kennedy Center's Leonard Bernstein at 100-year-long celebration. Based on Voltaire's 18th-century novella of the same title, Bernstein's funny and philosophical satire provides life- Washington National affirming lessons that continue to ring true with contemporary DC 1 Opera Washington 2018 $50,000 Opera audiences.. The creative team may include director Francesca Zambello and conductor Nicole Paiement. The cast may include tenor Alek Shrader, mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, and soprano Kathryn Lewek. As many as nine performances will be presented at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Opera House in spring 2018.

To support a vocal and choral performance project celebrating the contributions of African-American composer, arranger, and baritone Henry Thacker "Harry" Burleigh (1866-1949). The project will explore Burleigh's impact and influence on American music and on his employer, Czech composer Antonin Dvorak, to include spirituals as a foundation for a future American school of music. Burleigh is known for introducing African-American spirituals to Post-Classical Ensemble, classically trained musicians and for arranging the music into DC 1 Music Washington 2018 $30,000 Inc. classical form. Programming will feature works for voice and piano and a cappella choirs. Participants in the project will include bass- baritone and artist-in-residence Kevin Deas, Music Director Angel Gil-Ordonez, the Washington National Cathedral Choir, choristers from local high schools, and choristers from the Metropolitan AME Church. Performances and programmatic enhancement activities will be presented at the Washington National Cathedral. The program will also broadcast live by WWFM Classical Radio.

To support the world premiere production of "Intelligence" a new play by Jacqueline E. Lawton at Arena Stage. Inspired by true events, the play is told through the eyes of Valerie Plame, a covert CIA operative searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq whose cover is blown. A political thriller that explores the cost of Washington Drama DC 1 Theater Washington deception and the consequences of speaking the truth, the play 2017 $45,000 Society, Inc. considers our country's simultaneous needs for covert operations as well as transparency about our political motives. The theater will host post-show talkbacks and panel discussions with local experts from D.C.'s political community in conjunction with the production. To support professional guest artists working with CityDance Conservatory students. Guest artists lead master classes, teach professional choreography, create new repertory, and perform DC 1 CityDance Ensemble, Inc. Dance Washington with students. The program provides students with direct 2018 $10,000 interaction with professionals and exposure to a diversity of cultures, perspectives, and genres of dance. The program takes place at CityDance's studios in Bethesda, Maryland.

To support the production and distribution of NPR's music programming. Through such features as Tiny Desk Concerts, Life of an Artist, and Alt.Latino, NPR Music will enhance its multimedia storytelling and expand its coverage of diverse musical genres and DC 1 National Public Radio, Inc. Media Arts Washington 2017 $70,000 artistic communities. Available on digital platforms and traditional media outlets to audiences across the country, NPR Music will engage both old and new music fans while seeking to identify new artists across diverse musical styles.

To support literary content including book reviews, author interviews, special literary series, and an online app. Among NPR's series are "Morning Reads," which features author interviews along with audience questions and impressions, as well as DC 1 National Public Radio, Inc. Literature Washington "Read/Watch/Binge!," which provides hand-picked pairings for 2017 $60,000 television, movies, and books. NPR's Book Concierge app also promotes engagement with literature by allowing readers to mix and match categories to produce personalized reading lists and discover new titles. To support a performance project. In its seventh year, the New Music for a New Age program will celebrate Music Director and composer Julian Wachner's tenth and final season with the chorus. Programming will include new works by Wachner and will feature guest conductor Thomas Colohan. Compositions by DC 1 Washington Chorus, Inc. Music Washington Wachner that will be included on the concert program may be "An 2017 $15,000 October Garden," "Chamber Symphony," "Blue, Green, Red," and "Come, My Dark-Eyed One." Community engagement activities may include school visits and free tickets for youth. The concert will be presented at the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. To support marketing and production costs for the Women's Voices Theater Festival. In partnership with regional theaters of diverse sizes and missions in the D.C. area, theatreWashington will DC 1 TheatreWashington Theater Washington serve as an organizing and promotional partner for the festival. 2018 $15,000 The organization will promote local and national visibility for the festival, and seek to increase attendance by theatergoers and theater professionals from across the nation. To support services and technical assistance to the choral field. Activities will include an annual conference, the online Chorus Management Institute, publications, conducting master classes, and leadership development forums for chorus managers and Chorus America DC 1 Music Washington leaders in the field. Published quarterly, "The Voice" will highlight 2017 $90,000 Association important issues and news for the choral field including findings and recommendations based on discussions from the April 2016 forum on Sustaining the Chorus Ecosystem held at Yale School of Music.

To support the In Your Neighborhood community engagement initiative. The orchestra will present one-week residencies across neighborhoods of Washington, D.C., such as the Downtown/Penn Quarter, Brookland/NoMa, Columbia Heights, and Capitol Hill/H Street areas. The orchestra will conduct as many as two week-long National Symphony artist residencies in neighborhood locations where it has DC 1 Orchestra Association of Music Washington performed since launching the program in 2012. Through the In 2018 $30,000 Washington, DC Your Neighborhood residencies, the orchestra musicians will perform full orchestral repertoire for the community, as well as a number of chamber music concerts in schools, libraries, community centers, and performing arts spaces. Project locations will include the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and other venues in Washington, D.C.

To support the In-School Playwriting Program. Teaching artists will provide interactive workshops that will teach students how to craft a play using improvisation, writing, editing, rehearsal, and performance. Each student will write a short play that will be performed by professional actors in the classroom. The actors will Young Playwrights' DC 1 Arts Education Washington help students revise their work and select student work will be 2017 $50,000 Theater, Inc. presented at the New Play Festival, a free public showcase of professionally produced work. The project servese neighborhoods with low test scores, low graduation rates, and few arts education opportunities. The project will serve elementary and secondary students throughout the District of Columbia. To support the world premiere production of "Trayf" by Lindsay Joelle at Theater J. The play follows the story of two young Chabad- Lubavitch Jews driving a "Mitzvah Tank" through New York City on a mission to promote Judaism among non-practicing Jews. Edlavitch Jewish Culminating in the 1991 Crown Heights riots, the play confronts DC 1 Community Center of Theater Washington 2018 $10,000 questions of immigrant assimilation, and how Americans use faith Washington DC to grapple with chaos. The theater will develop audience engagement opportunities to explore the identity of Chabad- Lubavitch Jews, reaching out to both Jewish and non-Jewish communities throughout D.C. To support a vocal recital project. The project will feature artists such as soprano Lisette Oropesa, tenor Piotr Beczala, and pianists DC 1 Vocal Arts Society Music Washington Vlad Iftinca and Martin Katz performing a diverse international 2017 $10,000 song repertoire. The recitals will be held at the University of the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C. To support a vocal recital project. The project will feature artists soprano Dorothea Roschmann, mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught, tenor Christoph Pregardien, and baritone Brian Mulligan performing a diverse international art song repertoire, including DC 1 Vocal Arts Society Music Washington 2018 $12,500 the premiere of a new commissioned work by American composer Gregory Spears. The recitals will be held in the Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. To support a production of Shakespeare's "Hamlet," directed by Artistic Director Michael Kahn. The production will be set in an unnamed European nation in 1937 and will explore how Hamlet's personal and emotional distress ultimately thrusts him into political action. A full array of audience engagement opportunities DC 1 Shakespeare Theatre Theater Washington 2018 $25,000 and educational resources will complement the production, designed to deepen the experience for patrons of all ages and backgrounds. As Kahn is scheduled to retire in 2019, this production will mark the final staging of a Shakespeare play in his career. To support a Deaf-Blind theater institute. During a two week summer institute, participants will develop models and practices to allow Deaf-Blind people to participate in theater as both audience members and actors. Participants will study immersive theater experiences and ProTactile communication strategies to DC 1 Gallaudet University Theater Washington identify dramatic techniques that accommodate the perceptual 2017 $25,000 needs of Deaf-Blind people. Working from an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" by a Deaf-Blind author, participants will workshop scenes to develop performance prototypes. The project also includes a short film documenting the summer institute. To support the premiere of "Jefferson's Garden" by Timberlake Wertenbaker. Revolutionary War-era America is explored through the lens of a Quaker who joins the Revolution, the enslaved woman he falls in love with, and the idealist Thomas Jefferson. DC 1 Ford's Theatre Society Theater Washington 2018 $20,000 The play will be part of the Women's Voices Theater Festival, an area-wide initiative in which participating theaters produce new works written by women playwrights. Students from underserved schools will receive free tickets to the production. To support Dance Place's presentation of emerging and established dance artists. The project will include co-commissions of new choreography, the presentation of national and D.C.-based artists, outreach activities, and festivals. Co-commissions will be D.C. Wheel Productions, new works from Cynthia Oliver/COCo Dance Theatre and Sean DC 1 Dance Washingon 2017 $50,000 Inc. Dorsey Dance, as well as a full commission of a new work from an emerging local choreographer for New Releases 2018. Residency activities for companies may include master classes, discussions, performances and classes at schools and senior centers, and pre- show talks. To support a production of "HIR" by Taylor Mac. The play is a family epic about a Marine returning from war who is shocked to come home to a world completely changed. His controlling and abusive father has had a stroke and is severely incapacitated, his mother has upended the power dynamics of her marriage, and his Woolly Mammoth DC 1 Theater Washington sister Max has embraced a transgender identity. The play explores 2017 $40,000 Theatre Company topical issues including reentry, addiction, domestic violence, gender identity, the housing crisis, and health care. The theater will partner with local service organizations and veterans groups to design community engagement programs to complement the production. To support LAF's Case Study Investigation (CSI) program, which illustrates the value of sustainable design in communities. CSI teams, consisting of landscape architecture faculty, student research assistants, and selected practitioners, conduct intensive on-site research and analysis on specific installed landscapes, Landscape Architecture resulting in final case study briefs that are peer reviewed, edited, DC 1 Design Washington 2018 $25,000 Foundation published, and promoted. Throughout the year, LAF hosts webinars on the program and uses the findings to guide their larger research initiatives and to add key content to LAF's Landscape Performance Series. The purpose of CSI is to generate more compelling evidence of the critical role that landscape architecture plays in creating sustainable communities.

To support the Children's Orchestra, an after-school string orchestra program for D.C. public school students in Title I elementary schools. At no cost to the students or the school, teaching artists will provide as many as two hours of instrumental music instruction three times each week through group lessons DC Youth Orchestra DC 1 Arts Education Washington and string orchestra rehearsals. In addition, the project will 2017 $15,000 Program include side-by-side performances and master classes with professional musicians, such as those from the National Symphony Orchestra, and the opportunity to perform in professional concert venues, such as The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and THEARC.

To support performances of "Champion" by composer Terence Blanchard and librettist Michael Cristofer and "Dead Man Walking" by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Terrence McNally. These works will continue the organization's initiative to engage the local community by producing innovative works that address contemporary social issues in America. "Champion"-a two- act, jazz-infused opera written by Grammy Award-winning composer Terence Blanchard and Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Washington National Award-winning librettist Michael Cristofer-focuses on the life of DC 1 Opera Washington 2017 $60,000 Opera welterweight boxer Emile Griffith and explores the meaning of sexual identity and the challenges that gay and lesbian individuals face in modern-day America. "Dead Man Walking"-based on the nonfiction book by Sister Helen Prejean and the 1995 film of the same name-is set in 1980s Louisiana. The story follows the relationship between a condemned killer on death row (Joseph De Rocher) and the nun (Sister Helen) who supports him, and will examine the morality of the death penalty and the complexity of forgiveness. To support unLOCK: Merging Art and Industry in Lockport, Illinois. In partnership with the City of Lockport, the Artist Guild of Lockport, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, program staff of the Gaylord Building will commission and install National Trust for Historic artworks by local and regional artists throughout downtown DC 1 Preservation in the United Design Washington 2017 $50,000 Lockport. Project partners aim to bring new people and businesses States to the Main Street as well as strengthen the community's industrial heritage and entrepreneurial identity through public art commissions that celebrate the town's rich industrial and entrepreneurial history. To support the exhibition "Revival." The exhibition will feature approximately 70 objects and installations that will illuminate how contemporary women artists recast the canons of sculpture and photo-based art, an area in which women were lesser-known pioneers. Works by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Lalla Essaydi, National Museum of DC 1 Museums Washington Sonia Gomes, Maria Marshall Ingrid Mwangi, Joana Vasconcelos, 2017 $30,000 Women in the Arts, Inc. and others will be featured, drawn from artists' studios, public and private collections, and the museum's collection of global contemporary art. Self-guide cards, workshops, and artist talks will supplement the exhibition, making it accessible to an even wider audience.

To support Dance/USA's core programs during the organization's 35th anniversary year. Core programs include the Annual Conference, Dance/USA's Institute for Leadership Training (DILT), the annual Dance Forum, national research initiatives, and the continued analysis of local dance ecosystems. The Annual Conference brings the national field together for panel conversations, training sessions, and performances, and is DC 1 Dance/USA Dance Washington 2017 $90,000 planned in partnership with local dance and arts leaders from the host city. DILT is a mentorship program between emerging and established administrators, specifically leaders from diverse communities. The Dance Forum convenes the dance field around current issues at the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference. Research and ongoing surveys are expanding to be more inclusive and comprehensive. To support Dance/USA's core programs, including the annual conference, the Institute for Leadership Training (ILT), the annual Dance Forum, national research initiatives, and a pilot of a dance archiving education program. The annual conference brings the national field together for panel conversations, training sessions, and performances, and is planned in partnership with local dance and arts leaders from the host city. ILT is a mentorship program DC 1 Dance/USA Dance Washington 2018 $90,000 between emerging and established administrators, specifically leaders from diverse communities. The Dance Forum convenes the dance field around current issues. Research and ongoing surveys will expand to be more inclusive and comprehensive. Dance preservation activities include a peer networking group of dance archivists and a pilot archiving education program for dance organizations.

To support Arena Stage's world premiere production of "Snow Child," a new musical by playwright John Strand, with music and lyrics by Bob Banghart and Georgia Stitt. Adapted from Eowyn Ivey's novel and commissioned by Arena Stage and Perseverance Theatre (Alaska), the musical tells the story of a childless couple Washington Drama searching for meaning in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness in DC 1 Theater Washington 2018 $45,000 Society, Inc. the 1920s, when a mysterious child appears to them out of the snow and changes their lives forever. The theater will enhance the production's experience and extend the content beyond the stage for audience members through several initiatives including post- show talkbacks, panel discussions, and blog posts featuring rehearsals and behind-the-scenes elements of the production.

To support the In Your Neighborhood community engagement initiative. The orchestra will conduct a week-long artist residency in the Southeast/Southwest neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. Through the sixth In Your Neighborhood residency, the orchestra musicians will perform full orchestral repertoire for the National Symphony community, as well as a number of chamber music concerts in DC 1 Orchestra Association of Music Washington 2017 $35,000 schools, libraries, community centers, and performing arts spaces. Washington, DC Guest artists will join the orchestra in concert at larger venues such as THEARC. In addition, the musicians will return to previously visited D.C. communities such as Columbia Heights, the U Street Corridor, NoMa, Capitol Hill, and Downtown/Penn Quarter. To support a study examining the impact of choral singing on older adults. The study will assess the types and frequency of choral singing among older adults, its perceived importance to social connectedness and physical health, and improvements to Chorus America DC 1 Research Washington cognitive function. In partnership with the National Center for 2017 $20,000 Association Creative Aging, researchers will administer focus group interviews and online surveys to the general public, choir members, older adults, and family caregivers. Where possible, trend comparisons will be made with 2003 and 2009 survey findings.

TOTAL: $4,583,820