Art Works Grants
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National Endowment for the Arts — December 2014 Grant Announcement Art Works grants Discipline/Field Listings Project details are as of November 24, 2014. For the most up to date project information, please use the NEA's online grant search system. Art Works grants supports the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and the strengthening of communities through the arts. Click the discipline/field below to jump to that area of the document. 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 Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Page 1 of 168 Artist Communities Number of Grants: 35 Total Dollar Amount: $645,000 18th Street Arts Complex (aka 18th Street Arts Center) $10,000 Santa Monica, CA To support artist residencies and related activities. Artists residing at the main gallery will be given 24-hour access to the space and a stipend. Structured as both a residency and an exhibition, the works created will be on view to the public alongside narratives about the artists' creative process. Alliance of Artists Communities $40,000 Providence, RI To support research, convenings, and trainings about the field of artist communities. Priority research areas will include social change residencies, international exchanges, and the intersections of art and science. Cohort groups (teams addressing similar concerns co-chaired by at least two residency directors) will focus on best practices and develop content for trainings and workshops. The project also includes an annual conference and the Emerging Program Institute. 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 criteria for their selection of resident artists, known as "associates," selected through a competitive application process. In addition, the center will support a summer creative writing residency for teens with mentorship from veteran writers. Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (aka Bemis Center) $40,000 Omaha, NE To support thematic residencies focused on food production and consumption and related activities. Leading social practice artists such as Merle Ziegler, Luke Jerram, and Stephanie Bardin will be invited to produce multidisciplinary art, while the rest of the cohort will come from an open call. In addition, artists of all disciplines also will pursue questions of race relations in America at Carver Bank, an artists' residency facility spearheaded by artist Theaster Gates located in the underserved community of North Omaha. Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Inc. (aka BAX) $10,000 Brooklyn, NY To support an urban artist residency program and related performances. The focus of the project will be to support artists from dance, theater, and performance art in the creation and presentation of new art work. In addition to traditional residencies, financial support is given to teaching artists and artists who are parents. Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation (aka The Watermill Center) $20,000 New York, NY To support artist residencies and related activities. Individual artists and artist collectives will be given space, resources, and financial support to create and publicly present their work at the Watermill Center. Residencies will culminate with open rehearsals, exhibitions, and/or workshops for the public. Cannonball Miami Inc. (aka Cannonball) $15,000 Miami, FL Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Page 2 of 168 To support residencies and related activities for interdisciplinary artists and scholars. Residencies will include housing, workspace, travel allowance, administrative and technical assistance, and monthly stipends. Participating artists and scholars will conduct research, create new work, and have the opportunity to lead seminars and workshops for the public. Carnegie Mellon University $15,000 Pittsburgh, PA To support media artist residencies and related activities. Media artists will develop free, open-source arts engineering toolkits (e.g., OpenFrameworks, Processing, PureData, MaxMSP, Arduino). Participating artists will receive travel and housing assistance as well as workspace, equipment, and an honorarium. National workshops also will be held to teach other artists how to use the toolkits. Chicago Artists' Coalition (aka CAC) $10,000 Chicago, IL To support a residency program for emerging visual artists and related activities. Artists will receive studio workspace, dedicated exhibition programming, and customized professional development. Artists also will be given the opportunity to visit other artist coummunities in a Midwest Artist Exchange initiative. Clay Studio (aka The Clay Studio) $15,000 Philadelphia, PA To support an artist residency program and related activities. The program is intended to serve emerging ceramic artists. Selected artists will receive studio space, access to equipment and reduced-price materials, teaching and exhibition opportunities, and the benefits of exchange with other resident artists. Corporation of Yaddo (aka Yaddo) $20,000 Saratoga Springs, NY To support residencies for collaborative teams from all artistic disciplines, and related activities. Artist teams will participate in the residencies. Working in conjunction with local schools and libraries, Yaddo will provide volunteer opportunities for artists to engage with the community through readings and/or exhibitions. Djerassi Resident Artists Program $10,000 Woodside, CA To support residencies for American visual, media, performing, and literary artists. Residencies will include studio space, housing, meals, local transportation, and administrative support. Special features of the campus include a dance studio with a 1,000-square-foot sprung hardwood floor and a soundproof composer's studio. Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc. (aka FAWC) $20,000 Provincetown, MA To support residencies for emerging artists and writers. Fellows will be provided apartments, work spaces, and a monthly stipend, as well as access to a new digital media lab. They also will lead workshops in area public schools and participate in community exhibitions or readings. Flying Object Center for Independent Publishing Art & the Book, Inc. (aka Flying Object) $10,000 Hadley, MA To support multidisciplinary live/work residencies and related activities. Artists working in a variety of creative disciplines will be selected by a committee of established artists to develop and implement a theme-based project in their chosen medium. Residents will be required to give several public presentations, including performances, workshops, or exhibitions related to their research, progress, and discoveries. Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Page 3 of 168 Franconia Sculpture Park $15,000 Shafer, MN To support residencies and exhibition programs for emerging and mid-career visual artists. Artists will be awarded fully funded residencies supporting the creation of new large-scale, three-dimensional art work to be exhibited for as long as one year at the sculpture park. The program also will benefit local residents who participate in public arts learning events. free103point9, Inc. (aka Wave Farm) $15,000 Acra, NY To support residencies for artists to create new transmission art works and research the genre at Wave Farm. Resident artists will receive a stipend and unprecedented access to a wide array of transmission technologies, including an FM radio station. Artists will perform, be interviewed, and create programming for broadcast. Additional public access will be made possible through installations and workshop presentations. Headlands Center for the Arts (aka Headlands) $50,000 Sausalito, CA 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 alumni and local artists. The alumni new works program is a project-based initiative designed to offer dedicated support for the cutting-edge creative practices of Headlands Alumni. The commissioned projects program's goals include supporting and investing in artists whose work will impact the cultural landscape; providing artists with the support to produce a significant project which might not otherwise happen; encouraging artists to make work inspired by the Marin Headlands; and making manifest the impact of Headlands' programs for both artists and audiences. Hedgebrook Foundation $15,000 Langley, WA To support fully funded residencies for writers. With a focus on women writers, Hedgebrook will select resident authors through an anonymous process. The writers will stay in cottages on Whidbey Island, participate in a communal dinner every evening, and serve as editors and sounding boards for one another's work. Past Hedgebrook writers have received the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, MacArthur Fellowships, and have been featured by national media outlets.