National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Spring Grant Announcement Artistic Discipline/Field Listings 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. Click the grant category or artistic discipline/field below to jump to that area of the document. 1. Art Works grants by discipline/field Arts Education Dance Folk & Traditional Arts Literature Local Arts Agencies Media Arts Museums Music Opera Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works Theater & Musical Theater Visual Arts 2. Research: Art Works Grants 3. Our Town Grants 4. Partnerships (State & Regional) Arts Education Number of Grants: 113 Total Dollar Amount: $3,375,000 Abada-Capoeira San Francisco $10,000 San Francisco, CA To support the expansion of a capoeira residency and performance program for students in San Francisco area schools. Students will learn capoeira, a traditional Afro-Brazilian art form that combines ritual, self-defense, acrobatics, and music in a rhythmic dialogue of the body, mind, and spirit. Students will develop their physical and cognitive skills through weekly classes with professional artists, learning the physical elements of the art form, the music, historical and cultural information, and performance concepts. Students will work in partners and as a group, interacting in an atmosphere that encourages creativity and spontaneity. Emphasis will be placed on teamwork, concentration, and the use of movement, rhythm, and song as methods of expression. Actors' Shakespeare Project (aka ASP) $30,000 Somerville, MA To support Shakespeare Inside and Out youth theater programs. Participating youth (many of whom are involved in the court system) develop artistic, literacy, social, and pre-professional skills through the study of Shakespeare and other ensemble-based theater projects. Through residencies, after-school programs, a summer intensive, and leadership development, participants have the opportunity to create and share their own work. This project supports the Massachusetts Department of Youth Service's goal to create systemic change by incorporating arts education into all of its facilities. All activities culminate in a public performance and youth-led, post-show discussions. American Festival for the Arts (aka AFA) $15,000 Houston, TX To support Summer Music Conservatory, a music education program for students from the greater Houston area. For several weeks during the summer, professional musicians and music educators will provide instruction in strings, piano, choir, wind and brass instruments, and music composition. Students will participate in large ensembles, chamber or small ensembles, individual coaching sessions, and musicianship classes. In summer 2017, the program will expand to include elementary level piano and orchestra. Conservatory faculty and guest conductors will ensure students gain skills and knowledge in music as well as learn the value of teamwork, discipline, motivation, and leadership. Students are selected through an audition process, and scholarships are widely available. Architecture Resource Center Inc. (aka ARC) $10,000 New Haven, CT To support the Design Connections Partnership. The professional development program, which integrates arts learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects, will serve teachers in New Haven Public Schools. Master teaching artists, architects, and designers from Architecture Resource Center and Yale University will mentor and collaborate with classroom teachers and art teachers through professional development sessions and school residencies. Students will learn how to express themselves through the visual arts, how to communicate their ideas, how to work in teams to solve problems, and how to apply academic concepts in their lives and their communities. Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of June 5, 2017. Page 2 Arts Every Day, Inc (aka Arts Every Day) $50,000 Baltimore, MD To support Baltimore Arts Equity Initative (BAEI), a collective impact project to develop infrastructure and an implementation approach for arts education in Baltimore City Public Schools. Arts Every Day will engage key stakeholders, including Baltimore Arts Education Coalition, Arts Education in Maryland Schools, Maryland State Department of Education, Maryland Out of School Time, Family League of Baltimore, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance, and T. Rowe Price Foundation to support and expand upon Baltimore City Public Schools' Fine Arts Plan. In the first year, the project's leadership team and committees will research local and national collective impact arts education models, assess needs, define shared goals and indicators, and connect the BAEI plan to citywide cultural planning processes. In the second year of the project, BAEI will pilot an arts-rich program in several schools, collect data, leverage new and existing resources, adopt and implement district policies that meet state arts education standards, and produce and present a State of the Arts progress report. The majority of students in Baltimore City Schools are eligible for free or reduced lunch, an indicator of poverty. Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University $15,000 Chicago, IL To support the Auditorium Theatre ArtsXChange program. Teaching Artist Mentors will be hired to provide year-long professional development to Chicago Public School teachers through workshops and classroom residencies. Teachers and their mentors will work together to design, facilitate, and assess student art-making, with teachers providing more instructional leadership over time. The residencies include opportunities for teachers and their students to experience matinee performances at the Auditorium Theatre, a national historic landmark. The project is aligned with the Chicago Public Schools Arts Education Plan. Austin Chamber Music Center (aka ACMC) $20,000 Austin, TX To support year-round chamber music instruction. The program includes a two-and-a-half week summer chamber music workshop, a ten-day chamber music residential camp, an academic year Saturday Chamber Music Academy, and an in-school coaching program at Austin-area schools. The summer workshop occurs simultaneously with the Austin Chamber Music Festival, and festival artists such as the Vienna Piano Trio and the Tokyo String Quartet will present master classes to participants. Students in the chamber music residential camp will have the benefit of learning from professional artists-in- residence. In the Saturday Chamber Music Academy and in-school programs, professional teaching artists will provide chamber music coaching, music theory and composition classes, and master classes to elementary, middle, and high school students. Austin Classical Guitar Society (aka Austin Classical Guitar (ACG)) $55,000 Austin, TX To support Classical Guitar Education in the Schools. The project is a classical guitar instruction program for students in Central Texas that includes professional development for teachers. Classical guitar instructors will provide lessons to elementary, middle, and high school students in music theory, guitar finger positioning, and performance technique. Public, private, and charter schools will be served, including a braille-adapted course at Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and special classes for court-involved youth in Travis County. Additional program components will include guest artist performances in the schools and the opportunity for students to audition for the Classical Guitar Youth Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of June 5, 2017. Page 3 Orchestra. Through national teacher training workshops, hundreds of music educators in cities around the country will learn the Austin Classical Guitar curriculum for use in their own guitar classes. Austin Independent School District (aka AISD) $100,000 Austin, TX To support the collective impact project Breaking Down Barriers: Sustaining Creative Learning Campuses in Austin. Creative Learning Initiative seeks to provide a quality arts-rich education for each and every child in AISD and professional development and ongoing support for teachers in arts-based instructional strategies. The collaboration of AISD, the City of Austin, MINDPOP, local artists, businesses, and philanthropic organizations has supported AISD campuses in the completion of foundational phases to increase their capacity to become arts-rich schools. This project will facilitate the transition of campuses to their sustaining phases by offering individualized coaching to campus leaders, support for the creation of campus-specific sustainability plans, and resources and handbooks to guide planning and decision-making, as well as a Leadership Institute and follow-up Learning Exchanges. BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, Inc. (aka BRIC) $50,000 Brooklyn, NY To support the expansion of visual arts education programs and curatorial fellowships for students in New York City. Students from underserved communities will develop critical thinking and language skills through discussions of visual arts at the BRIC Media House Gallery, visits to contemporary art galleries, and in-school classroom workshops and student exhibitions. Classroom teachers will participate in staff development workshops that include hands-on arts experiences and integrating the arts