National Endowment for the Arts FY 2016 Spring Grant Announcement Artistic Discipline/Field Listings Project details are accurate as of April 26, 2016. For the most up to date project information, please use the NEA's online grant search system. Click the grant area or artistic field below to jump to that area of the document. 1. Art Works grants Arts Education Dance Design Folk & Traditional Arts Literature Local Arts Agencies Media Arts Museums Music Opera Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works Theater & Musical Theater Visual Arts 2. State & Regional Partnership Agreements 3. Research: Art Works 4. Our Town 5. Other Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of April 26, 2016. Arts Education Number of Grants: 115 Total Dollar Amount: $3,585,000 826 Boston, Inc. (aka 826 Boston) $10,000 Roxbury, MA To support Young Authors Book Program, an in-school literary arts program. High school students from underserved communities will receive one-on-one instruction from trained writers who will help them write, edit, and polish their work, which will be published in a professionally designed book and provided free to students. Visiting authors, illustrators, and graphic designers will support the student writers and book design and 826 Boston staff will collaborate with teachers to develop a standards-based curriculum that meets students' needs. Abada-Capoeira San Francisco $10,000 San Francisco, CA To support 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. American Festival for the Arts (aka AFA) $15,000 Houston, TX To support AFA 2016 Summer Music Conservatory, a music education program for students from the greater Houston area. During the summer, professional musicians and music educators will provide instruction in strings, piano, choir, and music composition. Students will participate in large ensembles, chamber or small ensembles, individual coaching sessions, and musicianship classes. Conservatory faculty and guest conductors will ensure students gain skills and knowledge in music as well as learning 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. ARC will offer a professional development program that integrates arts learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects for 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, mathematics coaches, 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 make new discoveries. Arts Connection (aka ArtsConnection) $30,000 New York, NY To support Developing English Language Literacy Through the Arts for English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers in New York City public schools. The project is a professional development program in which artists and teachers collaborate in monthly school-based small-group meetings, and cross-school professional development Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of April 26, 2016. workshops to create and teach interdisciplinary units of study, incorporating both language and instructional objectives in the arts and English language arts. The project is designed around school-based teams of ESL or dual language and classroom teachers working with a teaching artist. Teams develop and share a knowledge base by participating in experiential arts learning, developing interdisciplinary curriculum, and documenting and assessing student learning. Atlanta Shakespeare Company (aka a.k.a. Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse) $20,000 Atlanta, GA To support the Total Access Shakespeare Program, a theater training program. Underserved youth in elementary, middle, and high schools will participate in age-appropriate residencies, workshops, and performances led by professional theater artists. Elementary students will participate in "playshops" designed specifically for their age range and see a professional touring production of Shakespeare4Kids. Middle and high school students will learn performance skills and study a Shakespearean title, chosen with school faculty to enhance existing curriculum, and present an abridged version of the text for their school. In the most intensive component of the project, high school students will study acting, voice and movement, stage combat, Elizabethan dance, Madrigal singing, prop and costume design, and technical theater. They will perform in schools and on the theater company's professional stage. Austin Chamber Music Center (aka ACMC) $20,000 Austin, TX To support year-round chamber music instruction. The program will include a two-week summer chamber music workshop, 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 each festival artist will present master classes to participants. 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) $45,000 Austin, TX To support Classical Guitar Education in the Schools. The project is a classical guitar instruction program for students in the Central Texas region and includes professional development for teachers. Classical guitar instructors will provide free lessons to elementary, middle, and high school students in music theory, guitar finger positioning, and performance technique. Through national teacher training workshops, hundreds of music educators in cities around the country will learn the ACG's classical guitar curriculum for use in their own guitar classes. Additional program components will include guest artist performances in the schools, an online youth guitar magazine, and the opportunity for students to audition for the ACG's Classical Guitar Youth Orchestra. Austin Independent School District (aka AISD) $100,000 Austin, TX To support the Creative Learning Initiative (CLI), a collective impact project for Austin Independent School District. Teams from elementary, middle, and high school feeder systems will receive professional development, individual team coaching, and follow-up exchanges for teachers and principals who work to implement and sustain the CLI method and support collective impact data. In its fourth year since implementation, CLI is active in forty-four schools, reaches 800 teachers, and employs 4 trained and specially qualified coaches, all of whom were former teachers. Leaders from AISD, arts organizations, city government, higher education, business and philanthropy have created a ten-year plan to ensure every child benefits from creative learning. The city council Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of April 26, 2016. included CLI goals in its 30-year comprehensive plan. More than 40 arts organizations agreed to align programming to support the initiative. Austin Theatre Alliance (aka Paramount and Stateside Theatres) $15,000 Austin, TX To support Literacy to Life and STEM through the Arts, an arts-integrated education program for elementary schools in Austin. Professional teaching artists work with classroom teachers and their students to integrate creative writing, theater, music, dance, and film making into the core language arts and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) curriculum. Near the end of the residency, a group of professional actors- the Story Wranglers-will adapt the students' work into a series of short, energetic skits they perform for the entire school that acknowledges the students in the audience as authors. Students served by the project are predominantly from low-income families that are English-language learners. It is anticipated that students will gain an understanding in several performing art forms while increasing their knowledge and retention of core curriculum subjects. BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, Inc. (aka BRIC) $45,000 Brooklyn, NY To support a contemporary art school-based residency and teacher training program. Students from underserved New York City communities will develop their critical thinking and language