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National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Spring Grant Announcement National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Spring Grant Announcement State and Jurisdiction List 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. The following categories are included: Art Works, Art Works: Research, Our Town, and Partnerships (State & Regional). The grant category is listed with each recommended grant. All are organized by state/jurisdiction followed by city and then by the name of the organization. Click the state or jurisdiction below to jump to that area of the document. Alabama Kentucky Oklahoma Alaska Louisiana Oregon American Samoa Maine Pennsylvania Arizona Maryland Puerto Rico Arkansas Massachusetts Rhode Island California Michigan South Carolina Colorado Minnesota South Dakota Connecticut Mississippi Tennessee Delaware Missouri Texas District of Columbia Montana Utah Florida Nebraska Vermont Georgia Nevada Virginia Guam New Hampshire Virgin Islands Hawaii New Jersey Washington Idaho New Mexico West Virginia Illinois New York Wisconsin Indiana North Carolina Wyoming Iowa North Dakota Kansas Ohio Alabama Number of Grants: 10 Total Dollar Amount: $1,015,200 Auburn University Main Campus $25,000 Auburn, AL Art Works – Visual Arts To support the Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project. In collaboration with the Alabama Department of Corrections, the university will provide visual arts workshops taught by emerging and established artists for incarcerated men and women in multiple facilities around the state. The workshops, based on college-level curriculum, will include courses in the fundamentals of drawing, watercolor, mural arts, and block-cut printing. A touring exhibition will be presented, accompanied by an anthology of student produced creative works. Alabama Folklife Association, Inc. (aka Alabama Folklife Association) $30,000 Birmingham, AL Art Works – Folk & Traditional Arts To support One State, Many Traditions, Our Story: A Bicentennial Cultural Initiative. In preparation for Alabama's bicentennial celebration, folklorists will conduct archival research and fieldwork about the state's musical traditions and quilting heritage. Tradition bearers will be identified and documented, and previously unknown material will be preserved. The results of this research will be incorporated into bicentennial exhibits and curriculum guides for classroom use. City of Birmingham, Alabama $100,000 Birmingham, AL Our Town – Design To support a masterplan for a new arts and technology complex at Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark. The masterplan will address underutilized space and facilities at the Sloss Furnaces site and build workforce capacity in Birmingham through site-specific planning and design and arts and technology workforce development plans. The City of Birmingham, which owns Sloss Furnaces, will engage artists and the local creative community during the planning process. Sloss Furnaces includes 44 existing buildings and an 1881 iron ore blast furnace on a 15-acre site near downtown Birmingham. It was listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1981. Sloss Furnaces Foundation, Inc. (aka Sloss) $15,000 Birmingham, AL Art Works – Arts Education To support the summer youth apprenticeship program. High school students will build artistic, vocational, and social skills through apprenticeships while learning the processes used to create cast iron and fabricated steel sculpture with professional artists. Student artwork will be displayed in an exhibition at the Sloss Furnaces Gallery and at ArtWalk, an annual art festival in downtown Birmingham. Space One Eleven, Inc. (aka Space One Eleven (SOE)) $25,000 Birmingham, AL Art Works – Visual Arts To support an exhibition series featuring work by women artists. Plans for the project include two exhibitions. The first is a group show anchored by a resident artist-Rosa Naday Garmendia-whose work 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 explores social justice issues. The second exhibition will showcase emerging female artists. Complementing the residency and exhibitions will be panel discussions intended for the general public, university students, and faculty in which the exhibiting artists, art historians, and activists will explore topics such as attitudes toward feminist art among women of different generations; the role of artists as agents of change; and the representation of women in the contemporary art world. Marshall County Retired Senior Volunteer Program, Incorporated (aka Marshall County RSVP) $10,000 Guntersville, AL Art Works – Folk & Traditional Arts To support Melodies and Musings - Our Appalachian Legacy, a mountain dulcimer workshop series. 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 featuring the instructors and students. The project will promote health and well-being, including positive psychological and physiological benefits for the older adults involved. For an Our Town project in Hobson, AL, see University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa Alabama Youth Ballet Theatre, Inc. $10,000 Huntsville, AL Art Works – Dance To support Dance Connection. Students are nominated to participate in the annual performing arts program which reduces economic barriers to arts access. The program provides free or reduced-cost clothing, equipment, nutrition, and professional instruction during an intensive summer dance program that ends with a public performance. Eligible students are provided full-year tuition scholarships to the Alabama Youth Ballet School, which offers additional performance opportunities. Mobile Symphony, Inc. (aka Mobile Symphony Orchestra) $10,000 Mobile, AL Art Works – Music To support Mobile Symphony Orchestras's Young People's Concerts. Programming will feature an adaptation of Sergei Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" with Music Director Scott Speck. Tailoring the classic tale to the Alabama Gulf Coast, the wolf may be a native Alabama animal such as an alligator. Educational study guides and programs will be presented in elementary schools in Mobile and Baldwin Counties. The concerts will be presented during the school day for more than 3,000 elementary schoolchildren. Alabama State Council on the Arts $765,200 Montgomery, AL Partnerships (State & Regional) To support Partnership Agreement activities associated with carrying out your NEA-approved State strategic plan. University of Alabama $25,000 Tuscaloosa, AL/For a project in Hobson, AL Our Town – Design To support PhotoVoices: Cultivating Community, Creating Change in Hobson City, Alabama. The project will engage experts to teach photography and creative writing skills to youth in the community to create 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 a historic narrative of the town. The University of Alabama will partner with Hobson City on this program. The goal is to stimulate and cultivate community pride in shared history for this town of about 800 residents, most of whom are living below the poverty line. 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 4 Alaska Number of Grants: 5 Total Dollar Amount: $811,906 Alaska State Council on the Arts $675,800 Anchorage, AK Partnerships (State & Regional) To support Partnership Agreement activities associated with carrying out your NEA-approved State strategic plan. Anchorage Symphony Orchestra $15,000 Anchorage, AK Art Works – Music To support Young People's Concerts. In an effort to encourage participation in school instrumental music programs, concerts will be performed for elementary school students. Working in collaboration with Anchorage School District music educators, the orchestra will create study materials for classroom instructors. Teacher workshops also will be offered to prepare students for the concert experience. Koahnic Broadcast Corporation $25,000 Anchorage, AK Art Works – Media Arts To support a production highlighting Native artists on the radio program "Earthsongs." As many as five Native rap and hip-hop artists will be profiled for a production that highlights each artist's tribal history, personal story, and the cultural significance of spoken-word, rap, and hip-hop traditions within the greater Native community. The production will feature performances by each artist as well as recordings of outreach events in their local communities, in areas such as Anchorage, Alaska; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Billings, Montana. The program will air on "Earthsongs," which has public broadcast planned through station affiliates of the Native One Voice radio network and other public radio stations across the country. Perseverance Theatre, Inc. (aka Perseverance Theatre) $10,000 Douglas, AK Art Works – Theater & Musical Theater To support the development and world premiere of "Snow Child," a new musical by playwright John Strand, lyricist and co-composer Georgia Stitt, and co-composer Bob Banghart. Adapted from the novel "The Snow Child" by Eowyn Ivey, and based on a centuries-old Slavic-Nordic folktale, the musical will tell the story of two newcomers to the territory of Alaska who are tested as they question their resolve and ultimately
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