FY 2015 Fall Grant Announcement Artistic Discipline/Field and Category Listings Project details are as of December 1, 2015. For the most up to date project information, please use the NEA's online grant search system. Click the grant area, artistic field, or category below to jump to that area of the document. 1. Art Works grants including Imagine Your Parks/Art Works. Artist Communities Arts Education Dance Folk & Traditional Arts Literature Local Arts Agencies Media Arts Museums Music Opera Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works Theater & Musical Theater Visual Arts 2. Imagine Your Park/Art Works. These grants are included in the above Art Works list but are placed here to be viewed by state and city. 3. Challenge America. Listed by state and city. Artist Communities Number of Grants: 44 Total Dollar Amount: $725,000 Kala Institute (aka Kala Art Institute) $10,000 Berkeley, CA To support residencies and related activities. National and international artists will be provided the time and materials to work in book arts, electronic/digital media, installation, photography, and printmaking. The new bodies of work will be presented through exhibitions, performances, and public programs. International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (aka Leonardo) $15,000 Oakland, CA To support residencies for artists and scientists. Artists whose works are inspired by mathematics or scientific disciplines will connect with scientists who are involved in art-related research and/or who are artist themselves at Leonardo. Previously, Santa Cruz choreographer mathematician/educator Karl Schaffer collaborated with Spanish physicist Guillermo Munoz to create a new dance based on string polyhedra. Additional activities will include presentations of the residents' work in public forums, as well as the publication of their work in an international journal and online. Point Reyes National Seashore Association $10,000 Point Reyes Station, CA (An Imagine Your Parks project) To support environmental artist residencies and related activities, an "Imagine Your Parks" project. Artist residencies will be held at the Mesa Refuge, a writers' retreat located in Point Reyes National Seashore, a part of the National Park Service. Each residency will include gatherings that bring artists and park staff together to share perspectives on climate questions, especially about how they relate to parks. 18th Street Arts Complex (aka 18th Street Arts Center) $10,000 Santa Monica, CA To support artist residencies and related activities. In addition, a cultural asset map will be created to identify community resources and document arts-friendly partners, such as schools, businesses, and individuals. Resident artists residing at the facility will be provided living stipends. Montalvo Association (aka Montalvo Arts Center) $15,000 Saratoga, CA To support residencies and related activities. Selected emerging and mid-career American artists from diverse disciplines will be offered fully funded residencies. Artists will present their work on-site and in the community through exhibitions and performances, as well as through educational and outreach activities. Headlands Center for the Arts $35,000 Sausalito, CA (An Imagine Your Parks project) To support artist residencies, an alumni new works program, and an artist commissioning program. Residencies will focus on emerging and mid-career artists. The alumni new works and commissioning programs will offer support for special projects created by past participating artists and local artists. The commissioning program's goals include supporting and investing in artists whose work will impact the cultural landscape; providing artists with the support to produce a project which might not otherwise happen; and encouraging artists to make work inspired by the Marin Headlands, part of the National Park Service. Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of December 1, 2015. Page 2 of 223 Djerassi Resident Artists Program $25,000 Woodside, CA To support residencies for American artists and related activities. San Francisco's Playwrights' Foundation, New York City's The New Black Fest, and the Latina/o Theatre Commons' Carnaval hosted by Chicago' DePaul University will partner with Djerassi on a program to nurture the work of emerging playwrights of color. All residents will receive stipends, access to tools and equipment, fabrication and production space, and opportunities to collaborate with fellow artists. Coyote School (aka Elsewhere Studios) $10,000 Paonia, CO To support artist residencies and related activities. Through an open, juried process, emerging or mid-career artists will be chosen for residencies at Elsewhere Studios focused on new work in the fields of fashion design and filmmaking. Support for the artists includes housing, studio space, and a stipend. Bakehouse Art Complex, Inc. $10,000 Miami, FL To support artist residencies and related activities for visual and media arts. Artists creating new work will be provided with studio space, access to equipment, exhibition opportunities, and professional development assistance, as well as interaction with master artists, curators, and collectors. Artists also will have the opportunity to interact with the public through open studios, critiques, teaching opportunities, pop-up shows, and community activities. Atlantic Center for the Arts, Inc. $25,000 New Smyrna Beach, FL To support artist residencies and related activities. Interdisciplinary residencies will provide mid-career and emerging artists a chance to work with master artists. The master artists will determine the focus of the residency session and set the criteria for the competitive application process for their potential resident artists. Former master artists have included poet Richard Blanco, writer Rick Moody, and visual artist Mildred Howard. In addition, the center will support a summer creative writing residency for teens with mentorship from veteran writers of varied genres. Artists' Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions Project (aka ACRE) $10,000 Chicago, IL To support artist residencies and related activities. Emerging artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds will be provided with room, board, and workspace at ACRE's residency facilities on a 1,000-acre farm in rural southwest Wisconsin. Afterwards the residents will participate in follow up lectures and events in Chicago. Ragdale Foundation (aka Ragdale) $20,000 Lake Forest, IL To support residencies and related activities. Artists from diverse ethnic, geographic, and/or professional backgrounds will be chosen for residencies focusing on new work and collaboration. In addition, several residents will participate in Ragdale in the Schools, an outreach program to area high schools and colleges. Big Car Media, Inc. (aka Big Car) $10,000 Indianapolis, IN To support a residency for a teaching sound artist, a citywide sound art project, and related activities. Activities will include participatory listening stations, audio tours of natural locations (such as parks), recordings and Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of December 1, 2015. Page 3 of 223 digital maps of these locations, and documentation of the project. Sound artists, theorists, and performers will participate. Harrison Center for the Arts (aka Harrison Center) $10,000 Indianapolis, IN To support artist residencies focused on cultural entrepreneurship and related activities. Resident artists, selected through a competitive application process, will be provided with studio space and living accommodations. The artists will produce or develop personal place-based projects that focus on the local neighborhoods and their history, future, assets, people and/or events. Press Street (aka Press Street) $15,000 New Orleans, LA To support artist residencies and related activities. Artists of various disciplines will be chosen based on their ability and commitment to projects encouraging public engagement. After artists complete a short residency at Press Street introducing them to stakeholders in their area of interest, the resident artists will begin the lengthier process of developing projects that expand arts and culture with the greater New Orleans region. Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc. (aka FAWC) $25,000 Provincetown, MA To support residencies for emerging artists and writers and associated activities. Resident artists will be provided apartments, workspaces, and a monthly stipend, as well as access to a woodshop, printmaking studio, and digital media lab. They also will lead workshops in local public schools and senior centers, as well as participate in community exhibitions or readings. Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Inc. (aka Skowhegan) $35,000 Madison, ME To support residencies for emerging artists and related activities. Resident artists, working beside established faculty artists, will receive a dedicated studio, as well as room and board. Participants also will have access to a sculpture shop, fresco studio, media lab, and art library. The residencies support emerging artists in both the creation of new work and the development of a lifelong artistic practice. Ox Bow (aka Ox-Bow) $20,000 Saugatuck, MI To support residencies and related activities for artists in all stages of their careers. Fully subsidized residencies will support both national and international