National Endowment for the Arts FY 2014 Spring Grant Announcement State Listings Project details are as of April 16, 2014. For the most up to date project information, please use the NEA's online grant search system. Included in this document are Art Works grants, State & Regional Partnership grants, and Research: Art Works grants. All are organized by state/territory and then by city, with the exception of the State & Regional Partnership grants which appear at the top of each state. Click the state or territory below to jump to that area of the document. • Alabama • Kentucky • Ohio • Alaska • Louisiana • Oklahoma • American Samoa • Maine • Oregon • Arizona • Maryland • Pennsylvania • Arkansas • Massachusetts • Puerto Rico • California • Michigan • Rhode Island • Colorado • Minnesota • South Carolina • Connecticut • Mississippi • South Dakota • Delaware • Missouri • Tennessee • District of Columbia • Montana • Texas • Florida • Nebraska • Utah • Georgia • Nevada • Vermont • Guam • New Hampshire • Virginia • Hawaii • New Jersey • Virgin Islands • Idaho • New Mexico • Washington • Illinois • New York • West Virginia • Indiana • North Carolina • Wisconsin • Iowa • North Dakota • Wyoming • Kansas • Northern Marianas Islands Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Page 1 of 228 Alabama Number of Grants: 5 Total Dollar Amount: $841,700 Alabama State Council on the Arts $741,700 Montgomery, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional To support Partnership Agreement activities. Auburn University Main Campus $55,000 Auburn, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts To support the Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project. Through the Department of Human Development and Family Studies in the College of Human Sciences, the university will provide visual arts workshops taught by emerging and established artists for those who are currently incarcerated. The workshops also will be accompanied by an anthology of student produced creative works. Alabama Folklife Association, Inc. (aka Alabama Folklife Association) $25,000 Birmingham, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts To support a series of workshops about Alabama quilting traditions. Alabama Folklife will offer technical training for identifying, documenting, preserving, and presenting traditional arts. Additionally, master artists including NEA National Heritage Fellow Bettye Kimbrell will lead workshops about design and making quilts. A post‐workshop retreat is scheduled allowing participants to evaluate the project and improve future events. Red Mountain Theatre Company (aka Red Mountain Theatre Company) $10,000 Birmingham, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater & Musical Theater To support a production of "Les Miserables" by Alain Boublil and Claude‐Michel Schonberg. Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, the work will be directed by Henry Hylan Scott, and will be the first non‐ touring production of the musical to take place in Birmingham. Through an ongoing partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the theater will engage the community in conversations about the musical's themes of social justice. Marshall County Retired Senior Volunteer Program, Incorporated (aka Marshall County RSVP or RSVP) $10,000 Guntersville, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts To support a mountain dulcimer workshop and concert. Artists will instruct senior citizens in playing the dulcimer in a multi‐day workshop. The instructional program will conclude with a concert of traditional music. Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Page 2 of 228 Alaska Number of Grants: 5 Total Dollar Amount: $735,500 Alaska State Council on the Arts $653,000 Anchorage, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional To support Partnership Agreement activities. Alaska Design Forum, Inc. (aka ADF) $40,000 Anchorage, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design To support workshops and a series of lectures discussing design's role and value in decoding and clarifying the ongoing cacophony of messages and noise produced through multiple media platforms. An international group of artists and designers will speak on communications strategies in Alaska. Design challenge workshops will explore the topic by creating artworks from local materials. Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc. (aka Alaska Native Heritage Center) $20,000 Anchorage, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts To support the Summer of Alaska Native Arts. Throughout the summer, Native artists will teach their craft through apprenticeships and demonstrate their skills to museum visitors. The artist/apprenticeship demonstrations will culminate with a festival of Alaskan Native Arts. The festival will feature demonstrations and opportunities for hands‐on artmaking, traditional dance performances and dance lessons, presentations of Alaska Native songs and drumming, and demonstrations of traditional foods. Anchorage Opera Company (aka Anchorage Opera) $12,500 Anchorage, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera To support "Soldier Songs," a chamber opera by composer David T. Little. The work explores the plight of soldiers who face the challenge of reintegrating into "normal" life after having returned home from war. Told from the point of view of a single character during various stages of life, the work seeks to blur the tradition of linear narrative in opera. Accompanying the production will be several educational activities, including evening dress rehearsals, and teacher study guides that link the opera to the subjects of math, science, reading, and language arts. Pre‐performance lecture‐demonstrations will provide admission‐free adult lectures by the creative team. Anchorage Symphony Orchestra $10,000 Anchorage, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music To support Young People's Concerts. In an effort to inspire participation in school instrumental music programs, concerts will take place for students. Teacher workshops will be offered and cross‐curriculum study materials will be produced in preparation for the concerts. Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Page 3 of 228 American Samoa Number of Grants: 1 Total Dollar Amount: $287,900 American Samoa Council on Arts, Culture & Humanities $287,900 Pago Pago, AS FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional To support Partnership Agreement activities. Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Page 4 of 228 Arizona Number of Grants: 16 Total Dollar Amount: $1,231,300 Arizona Commission on the Arts $791,300 Phoenix, AZ FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional To support Partnership Agreement activities. International Sonoran Desert Alliance (aka ISDA) $25,000 Ajo, AZ FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts To support a conference of folk artists. Representing Mexican, Native American, and Euro‐American traditions from communities across the Southwest, the alliance will explore the power of folk art to build and transform society. Folk artists will use traditional arts to examine issues of race, identity, and justice in the context of immigration and political borders. Artists for whom travel to Ajo is challenging will participate through interactive videoconferencing. Flagstaff Cultural Partners $45,000 Flagstaff, AZ FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies To support "The Fires of Change," an exhibition of new work and related programming that will explore the changing landscape as a result of wildfires and climate change in the Southwest. The participating artists will be taken on scientific field trips into the wilderness of northern Arizona, where recent major fires have been fought. The artists will use this information to inform the creation of new work. City of Mesa, Arizona (aka Mesa Arts Center) $60,000 Mesa, AZ FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education To support Jazz from A to Z, a comprehensive jazz education project. The project will foster an appreciation of jazz music, its impact on history, and its importance as one of America's greatest cultural resources. The program will include professional development workshops for school teachers about jazz history, a three‐day Band Director's Academy with jazz experts from Jazz at Lincoln Center, and jazz clinics for middle and high school students. In addition, the project will present a public history exhibit and host a regional Essentially Ellington band competition. Arizona Department of Education (aka Arizona Department of Education) $20,000 Phoenix, AZ FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education To support Arts2Go, a professional development project in partnership with the Arizona Commission on the Arts and local arts organizations for teachers and students in Maricopa County. Professional development for a core group of educators will focus on the connections between Arizona's arts standards (adopted in 2006) and the new Common Core standards in English Language Arts. Through webinars, the teachers will be trained in observation and understanding of exemplary works of art. Following each webinar session, teachers will bring their students to participating arts organizations in Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Page 5 of 228 order to teach them close observation of the performances. The intended outcome is for students to draw thoughtful conclusions about the significance of art, including the use of tools, materials, and techniques to create the artwork, and artists' purpose or meaning in works of art. Ballet