State District Organization Name Discipline / Field City Project Description Fiscal Year Grant Amount

To support place-based theatre and storytelling activities along the Bayou Road corridor in New Orleans. The project includes a series of community meetings, an oral history project, and playwriting workshops to engage the community in building a shared vision for the Bayou Treme LA 1 Southern Rep Design New Orleans Center for Arts Education on historic Bayou Road. Southern 2017 $50,000 Rep will partner with the City of New Orleans and Broad Community Connections on this future arts and education hub. The Bayou Treme Center will be a catalytic economic and cultural neighborhood resource for the approximately 385,000 residents of New Orleans.

To support the regional premiere of "All the Way" by Robert Schenkkan, in a community-based production featuring both professional and community actors. The play explores the circumstances and personalities that created the Civil Rights Act under President Lyndon B. Johnson, and considers the costs of the compromises required to make change. LA 1 Southern Rep Theater New Orleans Directed by Producing Artistic Director Aimée Hayes and 2018 $10,000 starring Jason Kirkpatrick as President Lyndon Johnson, the production will be staged at Loyola University New Orleans, and will offer extensive opportunities for civic engagement partnerships and programs including dramaturgical and historical displays, panel discussions, and civil rights era educational materials.

To support "American Routes Live." Interviews and performances from traditional musicians, who are relatively unknown outside of their communities, will be recorded and LA 1 Tulane University Folk & Traditional Arts New Orleans broadcast along with performances from nationally 2017 $80,000 recognized artists to demonstrate how their work has influenced each other. Additionally, live concerts of traditional music will be recorded and edited for broadcast. To support supplemental features for the radio show "American Routes." Interviews and performances from traditional musicians, who are relatively unknown outside of their communities, will be recorded and broadcast. The program plans performances and interviews from artists such as Kitty Amaral, a teenage old-time fiddler from Elk LA 1 Tulane University Folk & Traditional Arts New Orleans Creek, Virginia; Dori Freeman, an old-time and 2018 $50,000 contemporary country singer from Galax, Virginia; Cynthia Girtly, a gospel singer from New Orleans, Louisiana; Santiago Jimenez, Jr., a Texas-Mexican accordionist from San Antonio, Texas; and Marquis Knox, a blues guitarist from St. Louis, Missouri. The program will also feature recordings from folk festivals in Bangor, Maine, and Butte, Montana.

To support research and preparation for the exhibition "The Orleans Collection" and accompanying publication. Planned to coincide with the tricentennial of the city of New Orleans in 2018, the exhibition will include more than 50 masterpieces from the collection of Philippe II, Duke of LA 1 New Orleans Museum of Art Museums New Orleans Orleans (1689-1723), including works by Raphael, Titian, 2017 $35,000 Veronese, Correggio, Poussin, Rubens, and Rembrandt. A scholarly publication will accompany the exhibition, featuring new research by experts and revealing fresh insights for interpretation and connoisseurship of the early 18th century.

To support professional development for visual artists. The organization will offer a three-day weekend intensive to serve visual artists in Louisiana communities such as New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Covington, Monroe, and Shreveport. Partnerships with local arts agencies in each LA 2 Ella Project Local Arts Agencies New Orleans 2018 $25,000 area will facilitate local marketing and artist recruitment efforts. Presentations and workshops will feature topics such as career planning, creating an artist brand, current trends in grassroots marketing, legal issues for visual artists, basic finance, and identifying new markets.

To support artist residencies and related activities. In addition to receiving stipends, residents will have access to a woodshop with a variety of tools. A paneled jury will select a LA 2 Court 13 Arts Artist Communities New Orleans 2018 $20,000 mix of regional and national artists to participate in the residencies, which culminate in an end of year exhibition of large-scale work and a festival. To support in-school dance residencies for students. Students from public schools in New Orleans' Ninth Ward will study dance technique and choreography, leadership and teamwork, and physical fitness through a program that combines active, kinesthetic learning with creative analysis, studies of dance history, field trips, and group performance LA 2 Dancing Grounds Arts Education New Orleans projects. In the lower grades, students will take class two to 2018 $10,000 three times a week, learning foundational concepts in a variety of genres. In the upper grades, students will take class three to five times a week, experiencing dance as a means of developing youth voice and creativity. Each class will conceive, choreograph, and produce a live performance or video by the end of the school year.

To support Play/Write, a playwrighting program. The program will feature in-school residencies, Saturday workshops, and a showcase of student works. Professional teaching artists will provide weekly instruction for middle and high school students during the school year, including theater games, movement exercises, staging student- LA 2 Goat in the Road Productions Arts Education New Orleans 2017 $15,000 authored scenes. Each participating student will write an original play which will be professionally bound and published. A panel of teachers and artists will select plays that will be showcased at public performances by professional theater companies at Dillard University's Cook Theater. To support the creation of video and audio content to supplement "Antennae: Signals." A live-action art magazine, "Antennae: Signals" brings together artists, writers, filmmakers, scientists and more in locations throughout New Orleans for short presentations and performances on a LA 2 Press Street Media Arts New Orleans 2017 $10,000 theme. Expanded media content may include short films, podcasts, video essays, and animations in conjunction with the quarterly issues. As many as seven features will be produced per issue and offered to online art publications and platforms such as Vimeo, iTunes, and Stitcher. To support Antenna's Spillways residency program and related activities. Artists of various disciplines will be chosen based on their commitment to projects encouraging public engagement. After artists complete a short residency at LA 2 Press Street Artist Communities New Orleans 2018 $15,000 Press Street introducing them to stakeholders in their area of interest, they will begin the lengthier process of developing projects that expand arts and culture within the greater New Orleans region. To support the 2018 New Orleans Film Festival and related public activities. Held in the fall, the festival showcases narrative, documentary, experimental, and animated films. Festival activities include panel discussions with visiting filmmakers, pitch sessions for local filmmakers, networking events connecting filmmakers with industry leaders to LA 2 New Orleans Film and Video Festival, Inc. Media Arts New Orleans 2018 $30,000 discuss current projects, and curated screenings on themes such as Caribbean cinema. Partnerships with organizations such as New Orleans Video Access Center and the Louisiana Film and Entertainment Association will provide additional resources to engage, support, and include Louisiana-based filmmakers in festival programming.

To support environmentally-themed artist residencies. Resident artists will examine how communities and cultures are adapting to climate change. An open call will be issued LA 2 Friends of A Studio in the Woods Artist Communities New Orleans to artists of all disciplines who have demonstrated an 2017 $15,000 established dialogue with environmental and culturally related issues and a commitment to producing work with deep connections to the subject matter. To support the museum's Teen Docent Program. The program empowers the participants, helps them develop leadership and critical thinking skills, and exposes them to museum career opportunities. In addition to the specific docent training, the program allows for the teens to work LA 2 Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Inc. Museums New Orleans 2017 $16,000 directly with artists, preparing them to work as summer art camp counselors through the development of their own creative projects. The program also introduces the participating teens to other New Orleans cultural institutions. To support multidisciplinary artist residencies and related activities. Residents from a variety of disciplines will be selected in a national and international open call for artists. Artists will receive up to six weeks of room and board, a LA 2 Friends of A Studio in the Woods Artist Communities New Orleans 2018 $30,000 stipend, and studio space in a peaceful, natural environment. Artists will be paired with a Tulane University faculty consultant to support the resident's project with scholarship and resources. To support the presentation of a multidisciplinary performance exploring the experiences of African American women, and associated activities. The evening-length performance will feature works by multidisciplinary artists Marguerite Hemmings, Kesha McKey, and Rebecca Mwase. Presenting & LA 2 Junebug Productions, Inc. New Orleans Junebug also will work with poet Sunni Patterson and 2017 $20,000 Multidisciplinary Works director Jason Foster to create a video that will be screened during the performance featuring poetry, dance, and percussion. Engagement activities will include story-based community workshops and pre- and post-performance discussions.

To support a series of multidisciplinary arts performances and exhibitions. Activities will include Treme Home Fest, an outdoor festival presented in partnership with ArtSpace; an installation by visual artist Bryan Lee; and a series of videos directed by Jason Foster. Junebug will collaborate with the Presenting & LA 2 Junebug Productions, Inc. New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center to curate an evening of 2018 $35,000 Multidisciplinary Works performances featuring artists such as choreographer Onye Ozuzu, musician Greg Ward, multidisciplinary duo Taja Lindley and Jessica Valoris, and dance company KM Dance Project. Engagement activities including story circle workshops and discussions will be offered.

To support the presentation of dance companies and related education and outreach programs. NOBA will present a diverse season that includes new commissioned work, and many community engagement opportunities such as lecture-demonstrations, workshops, master classes, open LA 2 New Orleans Ballet Association Dance New Orleans rehearsals, and pre-performance talks. Through dance 2018 $40,000 activities that reflect the diversity of the community and the diversity of the art form, NOBA strives to infuse the art of dance into the cultural fabric of the Gulf region. Dance will be presented through key partnerships on the concert stage and in community settings.

To support national dance programs. NPN's dance programs include the Creation Fund, Forth Fund, Performance Residencies, and Annual Meeting. These programs support contemporary U.S. choreographers, dance artists, and presenters to create, commission, tour, and engage diverse LA 2 National Performance Network, Inc. Dance New Orleans communities with new work across the United States. The 2017 $50,000 programs will support the development and touring of innovative, new dance works; nurture the careers of hundreds of dancers; and create spaces for authentic dialogue between diverse dancers and audiences across the United States. To support NORDC/NOBA Center For Dance's youth and senior citizen dance education programs. The year-round program is a cultural community partnership of the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission and the New LA 2 Friends of NORD, Inc. Dance New Orleans Orleans Ballet Association. Programming may include dance 2017 $50,000 classes, workshops, performances, residency activities with professional dance companies, health and wellness education, intergenerational engagement, and family activities.

To support a multidisciplinary presenting series. Using a variety of artistic disciplines, the project will present a series of competing portraits of New Orleans to illustrate the complexity of the historic city in its 300th anniversary year. Presenting & Theater company Mondo Bizarro will present "Fieldguiding," LA 2 Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans 2017 $30,000 Multidisciplinary Works a multidisciplinary work that uses cartography to address the history of colonization as characters confront their ancestry and look towards the future. An exhibition of Sarah Morris' abstract paintings and films will locate New Orleans and its iconic landmarks.

To support the Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo Music and Arts Festival. The free, family-friendly, multicultural festival celebrating the musical heritage of New Orleans will be held along the banks of the historic Bayou St. John. As many as 300 local musicians and several international headliner LA 2 MotherShip Foundation Music New Orleans 2017 $10,000 artists of the blues, Cajun, jazz, rock, and Zydeco genres are expected to perform on several stages. In addition, local visual artists and craftsmen may participate in the event. New Orleans radio station WWOZ plans to live broadcast several of the main-stage performances. To support the 2017 New Orleans Film Festival. Held in the fall, the festival showcases narrative, documentary, experimental, and animated films. Festival activities include LA 2 New Orleans Film and Video Festival, Inc. Media Arts New Orleans a media literacy program for area students, panel 2017 $25,000 discussions with visiting filmmakers, pitch sessions for local film students, and networking events that connect filmmakers with industry leaders to discuss current projects. To support the Emerging Voices mentorship program and a producer's lab for Southern media artists and creators. Intended to serve artists from underrepresented communities in Louisiana, the Emerging Voices program will pair participants with industry leaders for mentorship and professional support while developing projects in narrative, LA 2 New Orleans Film and Video Festival, Inc. Media Arts New Orleans 2017 $25,000 documentary, animation, and online genres. In addition, a lab for producers working in the South will offer a series of workshops, guest artist discussions, and mentorship opportunities, covering topics such as financing, communication strategies, working with a sales agent, and developing low-budget feature films.

To support a commission for a new concerto for banjo and orchestra by banjo player and composer Bela Fleck. In celebration of New Orleans' 300th anniversary, the new work will be performed in New Orleans and in a surrounding LA 2 Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra Music New Orleans community. Educational activities may include a pre-concert 2017 $15,000 talk by the composer, programs with music composition students at local schools, a master class, a reading of student compositions, an open rehearsal of the new banjo concerto, and a family concert.

To support professional development and artist residencies. Through the Creative Schools program, teachers will build their capacity to incorporate arts-based learning throughout the school day. Project activities will include year-long in- school artist residencies, monthly professional development LA 2 KID smART Foundation Arts Education New Orleans for classroom teachers within those schools, and ongoing 2018 $30,000 training in arts education for resident teaching artists. Curriculum materials will be provided free-of-charge. Designed in partnership with public charter schools in New Orleans, the program will serve Kindergarten through middle school students from underserved communities.

To support LUNA Fete, an annual illumination festival. Commissioned artists will produce temporary light-based artworks in public spaces, including new venues in the French Quarter. Named a Tricentennial Signature Event by the City of New Orleans, LUNA Fete 2018 is expected to LA 2 Arts Council of New Orleans Local Arts Agencies New Orleans serve as the finale for the city's tricentennial celebration. 2018 $60,000 Additional elements such as a training program for local artists on the intersection of art and public lighting design, a parallel training program for local underserved youth, and the commissioning of new permanent light-based public artworks will continue year-round. To support concerts at the Louisiana State Penitentiary and the New Orleans Jazz Market, featuring the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Brass Band and rapper Juvenile. Juvenile will also lead a workshop for prison musicians. The public performance at the New Orleans Jazz Market will be LA 2 New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Inc. Challenge America New Orleans augmented by a pre-concert community conversation 2018 $10,000 featuring scholars, stakeholders, and community leaders in a critical discussion about incarceration in the United States. The project repertoire will include traditional New Orleans music, as well as an original work by Juvenile composed for spoken word and brass band.

To support programming about women artists of color from the 20th century. A group survey exhibition, a solo exhibition, and ensemble performances will highlight women artists who shaped their fields and canons of study. Presenting & Performances by Urban Bush Women and Rosie Herrera LA 2 Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans 2018 $40,000 Multidisciplinary Works Dance Theater, as well as a solo exhibition of sculpture and sound art by New Orleans-born artist Zarouhie Abdalian, and a group exhibition of African-American female abstractionists, will demonstrate a range of practices, communities, and histories.

To support an artist residency with Fallen Fruit, in partnership with the Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development. In both the Lower Ninth Ward and the Treme/Lafitte neighborhoods of New Orleans, art collaboration Fallen Fruit will work with individuals and community groups to plant fruit trees in public spaces and in front of homes and businesses. As part of the project in New Orleans, Fallen Fruit will create Urban Fruit Trails, localized networks of fruit trees that will LA 2 Friends of A Studio in the Woods Creativity Connects New Orleans 2017 $50,000 continue to provide a needed resource-food-to the public in perpetuity. The artists will create accessible, online maps of these Urban Fruit Trails to serve as a resource for the public to explore the city, connect with neighbors, and feed themselves. This action will use the city landscape to creatively ignite public conversations around food access, community development, and public space. The multi- platform project will include partnerships with a number of local non-arts and arts organizations. To support a project to identify, document, and disseminate best practices for creative placemaking, a Knowledge Building project. The NPN and the Visual Arts Network (VAN) will partner with Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, PhD, to research and archive creative placemaking case studies and best practices in the 31 states represented by NPN's membership. Products will include a series of written reports, interactive video conferences and panels, blog posts, and filmed short LA 2 National Performance Network, Inc. Design New Orleans interviews and oral histories, all of which will be accessible 2017 $75,000 through NPN's website. Research findings also will be disseminated through dedicated sessions at NPN's membership convenings. Through this project, NPN/VAN will deepen engagement with its membership, promote effective reflection and evaluative efforts, and better articulate the social change benefits of artistic production. The project will reach NPN/VAN's national network of 77 organizational members.

To support literary programming at the annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and the annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival. The festivals, which take place at venues throughout the French Quarter, feature readings, master classes, panel discussions, and walking tours. The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary LA 2 Literature New Orleans festivals also offer educational programs for local high 2017 $10,000 Festival, Inc. school students, including a program through which select authors will meet with high school student groups; a day- long series of workshops with festival authors; and a series of workshops led by theater professionals. Planned activities also include a Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference.

To support the presentation of dance companies and related education and outreach programs. NOBA will present a diverse season that includes culturally specific dance companies, new commissioned work, and many community engagement opportunities such as lecture- demonstrations, workshops, master classes, open LA 2 New Orleans Ballet Association Dance New Orleans rehearsals, and pre-performance talks. Presentations 2017 $50,000 include Ronald K. Brown/Evidence and Jessica Lang Dance. Through dance activities that reflect the diversity of the community and the diversity of the art form, NOBA strives to infuse the art of dance into the cultural fabric of the Gulf region. Dance will be presented through key partnerships on the concert stage and in community settings. To support artist fees for the Crescent City Blues BBQ Festival. Staged in downtown New Orleans, the festival will celebrate the blues tradition of Louisiana and the Delta LA 2 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, Inc. Folk & Traditional Arts New Orleans 2017 $40,000 South. In addition to musical performances from renowned blues artists, noted musical scholars will interview select musicians on the narrative stage.

To support the Crescent City Blues BBQ Festival. Staged in downtown New Orleans, the festival will celebrate the blues tradition of Louisiana and the Delta South. In addition to LA 2 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, Inc. Folk & Traditional Arts New Orleans musical performances from renowned blues artists, such as 2018 $30,000 such Little Freddie King and NEA National Heritage Fellow Henry Gray, noted musical scholars will interview select musicians on the narrative stage.

To support LUNA Fete. Commissioned artists will produce light-based artworks in public spaces as part of this annual LA 2 Arts Council of New Orleans Local Arts Agencies New Orleans 2017 $60,000 illumination festival. A signature element of the festival will be a video projection onto the Gallier Hall building.

To support a dance folklife education program. Students will study dance traditions of regional communities-including Cajun, Creole, and Native American-and use this research to Vermilionville Living History Museum LA 3 Folk & Traditional Arts Lafayette supplement classroom curriculum. Teachers and teaching 2017 $10,000 Foundation, Inc. artists will receive instruction about integrating dance into classrooms. Additionally, the project will be filmed for a documentary.

To support the commission of artists to create metal frames for Nick Cave's "Beaded Blankets" and associated activities. Selected artists will design and fabricate frames intended to transition the existing "Beaded Blankets" into outdoor public artworks. "Beaded Blankets," a series of art pieces created during a residency by sculptor, dancer, and performance artist Nick Cave, represent the stories of residents of four LA 4 Shreveport Regional Arts Council Local Arts Agencies Shreveport 2017 $60,000 social service organizations housed in Shreveport Common. Shreveport Common is a formerly blighted nine-block area that is being redeveloped utilizing creative placemaking principles. Performing artists also will be selected to perform/record the individual stories of the artworks. Additional activities include a QR-code activated app and tours. To support the Shreveport Opera Xpress educational touring program. The program serves as the educational programming arm of the company through which performances and activities reach public school students. Interactive residencies in which public school music teachers will select students for instruction in vocal technique, acting, LA 4 Shreveport Opera Opera Shreveport 2017 $10,000 singing, and stage direction by Shreveport Opera Xpress (SOX) artists are an integral part of the program. Performances will include "The Ugly Duckling," "Leo, the Lyin' Lion," and "Operatizers." Elementary through high school students throughout central and south Louisiana will be reached during the 2017-18 academic year.

To support the Natchitoches - NSU Folk Festival and associated outreach activities. The multidisciplinary folk festival, intended to serve an economically disadvantaged, multicultural region, will be free for youth. The project will include visual arts exhibits and demonstrations; Cajun, LA 4 Northwestern State University of Louisiana Challenge America Natchitoches Zydeco, jazz, bluegrass, country, blues, gospel, and 2017 $10,000 traditional Native American music concerts; and other diverse artistic expressions. Related outreach will include an accordion workshop, a Cajun dance class, and a bluegrass lecture-demonstration session with the bluegrass group the Clancey Ferguson Band. To support the Natchitoches-NSU Folk Festival. The festival will provide an opportunity for a rural and economically disadvantaged population to experience the traditional folk LA 4 Northwestern State University of Louisiana Challenge America Natchitoches cultures of Louisiana. The event will include several stages of 2018 $10,000 music, visual art exhibitions, storytelling events, and cultural demonstrations by invited artists with a focus on education and engagement with the local community. To support art exhibitions and associated activities. The River Oaks Square Arts Center will host an exhibition of Louisiana watercolor artist Sue Zimmerman's work, as well LA 5 River Oaks Square Arts Center Association Alexandria as a miniature 5x5x5 exhibition show juried by painter Linda 2017 $10,000 Dautreuil. The exhibitions will be complemented by activities such as artist lectures, classes, and demonstrations. Division of the Arts, Louisiana Department of LA 6 State & Regional Baton Rouge N/A 2017 $743,100 Culture, Recreation, & Tourism To support the River City Jazz Masters (RCJM) music performance series. The RCJM series will feature performances by the New York Voices, Victor Goines, Arturo Sandoval, and Brad Mehldau. Outreach activities will include LA 6 Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, Inc. Local Arts Agencies Baton Rouge 2017 $30,000 the Jazz Listening Room series, with pay-what-you-can performances by emerging musicians, and educational programming such as school performances, master classes, and lecture-demonstrations. TOTAL: $2,049,100