FY 2016 Fall Grant Announcement December 8, 2015 State and Jurisdiction List Project details are current as of December 1, 2015. For the most up to date project information, please use the NEA's online grant search system. Included in this document are Art Works and Challenge America grants. All are organized by state/jurisdiction and then by city and then by name of organization. Click the state or jurisdiction below to jump to that area of the document. Alaska Kansas Minnesota Alabama Kentucky Ohio American Samoa Louisiana Oklahoma Arizona Maryland Oregon Arkansas Massachusetts Pennsylvania California Michigan Rhode Island Colorado Minnesota South Carolina Connecticut Mississippi South Dakota Delaware Missouri Tennessee District of Columbia Montana Texas Florida Nebraska Utah Georgia New Hampshire Vermont Guam New Jersey Virginia Hawaii New Mexico Washington Idaho New York West Virginia Illinois North Carolina Wisconsin Indiana North Dakota Wyoming Iowa Michigan 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 1 of 243 Alaska Number of Grants: 5 Total Dollar Amount: $82,500 Anchorage Concert Association, Inc. (aka ACA) $25,000 Anchorage, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works To support a multidisciplinary presenting series and related activities. ACA will work with community partners to arrange workshops, residencies, house concerts, and other outreach activities. Proposed artists include Dublin Guitar Quartet (Ireland), Afiara Quartet (Canada), and Bela Fleck with Abigail Washburn. Perseverance Theatre, Inc. (aka Perseverance Theatre) $10,000 Douglas, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater & Musical Theater To support the production of "Into the Wild," a new rock musical with book by Janet Allard and music and lyrics by Niko Tsakalakos. Adapted from the book by Jon Krakauer, the work tells the story of Christopher McCandless, a 24-year-old college graduate who rejected his upper-middle class upbringing and undertook an epic odyssey throughout the United States and Mexico, eventually leading to his tragic demise in the Alaskan wilderness. The production will premiere in Juneau and will transfer directly to Anchorage for a second run at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, where Perseverance is a resident company. Hoonah City Schools $20,000 Hoonah, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education/Imagine Your Parks To support Singing our Way Back to Homeland: Traditional Tlingit Song Writing Workshop, an Imagine Your Parks project in Glacier Bay National Park. Workshop in Glacier Bay National Park. Artists and tribal elders within the Tlingit culture of Hoonah, Alaska, will teach students about the history of Hoonah culture through extant traditional clan songs. Students will participate in the composition of new traditional songs, make and adorn traditional skin drums, and perform newly created songs through dance, instrumental, and vocal music. Due to the longstanding tradition of the Hoonah City School District, the songs students will compose will be documented for future Huna Tlingit generations. Students will dance and sing their own songs with the drums created at the grand opening celebration of the Huna Tribal House in Glacier Bay to be opened by the National Park Service in 2016. Juneau Jazz & Classics, Inc. (aka Juneau Jazz & Classics) $12,500 Juneau, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music To support the Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival. For the 30th anniversary celebration, festival programming will include as many as 50 free and ticketed classical and jazz events in venues throughout Juneau and surrounding areas such as churches, community centers, malls, museums, and outlying villages. Headlining presentations include a staging of "Inuksuit" by John Luther Adams who is confirmed for a mini-residency. Percussionist and conductor Doug Perkins has been engaged to organize a free outdoor performance of "Inuksuit" on the University of Alaska's southeast campus with more than 30 percussionists and the Third Coast Percussion ensemble. Third Coast Percussion also will serve as an ensemble-in-residence, visit schools, conduct clinics, and lead two interactive programs exploring the relationship between music and the sciences. Ancillary activities may include lectures and informal discussions with the community, public workshops for musicians of all ages and skill levels, and clinics and assemblies for students. 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 243 Sitka Summer Music Festival Inc. (aka Sitka Summer Music Festival) $15,000 Sitka, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music To support a touring and outreach project in cities and rural towns of Alaska. The festival brings professional musicians from around the world to Alaska each year to rehearse and perform in small ensembles of two to eight performers in as many as 25 concerts and more than 40 educational and community outreach activities. Programming will feature artists such as the Arianna, Cypress, and Ying Quartets, pianist Awadagin Pratt, and violinist and conductor Dmitry Sitkovetsky. Covering more than 586,000-square miles, the project will reach the communities of towns such as Anchorage, Barrow, Fairbanks, Girdwood, Homer, Juneau, Nuiqsut, Sitka, and Soldotna. Community populations range from 375 people in Kiana to more than 300,000 in Anchorage. Alabama Number of Grants: 5 Total Dollar Amount: $95,000 Alabama Dance Council, Inc. (aka Alabama Dance Council) $25,000 Birmingham, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance To support the Alabama Dance Festival. The statewide festival will feature performances and a residency by Jessica Lang Dance (JLD), in partnership with Samford University's Wright Center. The festival also will include a New Works Concert featuring Southern choreographers, regional dance company showcases, master classes, workshops, community classes, and a Dance for Schools Program. The JLD residency will focus on an education program called the LANGuage curriculum that teaches dancers and non-dancers alike to cultivate the habit of creative thinking through exercise. JLD will present LANGuage workshops for middle and high school students, community and business professionals, and the creative entrepreneurial sector. Two of Lang's pieces that may be presented at the festival were created with visual artist Shinichi Maruyama, and a small exhibition of Maruyama's work will be presented at Space One Eleven art gallery. Lang is expected to present two lectures at the gallery and another at Birmingham Museum of Art's ArtBreak, a weekly public event. Alabama Educational Television Foundation Authority (aka Alabama Public Television) $30,000 Birmingham, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts To support "Journey Proud IV," a television series documenting Alabama traditions. The 30-minute program will present various folk arts and cultural traditions from around the state as they relate to Alabama's upcoming bicentennial as a U.S. territory (1817) and statehood (1819). Web-based resources for educators and students are planned to complement the series. Space One Eleven, Inc. (aka Space One Eleven (SOE)) $20,000 Birmingham, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts To support Cost of Living. The project is a series of events, exhibitions, and residencies by artists examining issues related to income inequality. An anchor exhibition for the program will feature Larry Thompson, whose work examines issues related to returning active duty military members. Residencies will complement the exhibition by ceramist and Gulf War veteran artist Ehren Tool, and installation artist Aisha Tandiwe Bell. The project will include workshops and activities for other local artists and the public. 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 243 Marshall County Retired Senior Volunteer Program, Incorporated (aka Marshall County RSVP) $10,000 Guntersville, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America To support Melodies and Musings - Our Appalachian Legacy, a Southeast regional mountain dulcimer festival culminating in a public concert. The dulcimer performance and associated workshops will serve a low-income, rural population in Marshall County. The project will feature musicians Linda Brockinton, Bill Collins, Steve Eulberg, and Molly McCormack. Alabama Southern Community College $10,000 Monroeville, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America To support BRAVO, an arts outreach program. In addition to performances, guest artists - the Alabama Shakespeare Festival (a regional theater company) and the Sounds of Mobile show choir - will conduct workshops for college and high school students. Participating students will then conduct a subsequent workshop in the surrounding communities for local school students. The program will bring cultural activities and education to a rural and economically disadvantaged five-county service area in southwestern Alabama. Arkansas Number of Grants: 8 Total Dollar Amount: $150,000 Theatre Squared, Inc. (aka TheatreSquared) $25,000 Fayetteville, AR FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater & Musical Theater To support the Arkansas New Play Festival. The festival will serve as a laboratory for new play development and will present the work of emerging playwrights to audiences in Little Rock and Fayetteville,