National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement State and Jurisdiction List Project details are accurate as of December 7, 2016. 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: Creativity Connects, Challenge America, and Creative Writing Fellowships in Poetry. The grant category is listed with each recommended grant. All are organized by state/jurisdiction and then by city and then by name of organization/fellow. Click the state or jurisdiction below to jump to that area of the document. • Alabama • Louisiana • Oklahoma • Alaska • Maine • Oregon • Arizona • Maryland • Pennsylvania • 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 • Hawaii • New Hampshire • Virgin Islands • Illinois • New Jersey • Washington • Indiana • New Mexico • West Virginia • Iowa • New York • Wisconsin • Kansas • North Carolina • Wyoming • Kentucky • Ohio Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of December 7, 2016. Alabama Number of Grants: 6 Total Dollar Amount: $120,000 Alabama Dance Council, Inc. (aka Alabama Dance Council) $30,000 Birmingham, AL Art Works - Dance To support the 20th anniversary of the Alabama Dance Festival. The statewide festival will feature performances and a residency by CONTRA-TIEMPO. The festival also will include a New Works Concert featuring choreographers from the South, regional dance company showcases, master classes, workshops, community classes, and a Dance for Schools program. The CONTRA-TIEMPO residency will focus on the company's new work "Agua Furiosa" which incorporates local stories into the performance and merges call-and-response, a live vocalist, water themes, physicality, and the performer's personal narrative. Collaborators will include the Freshwater Land Trust, the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama, and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Magic City Smooth Jazz $10,000 Birmingham, AL Challenge America To support Jazz in the Park, a series of free concerts in community parks located throughout the state of Alabama. An estimated 150 emerging Alabama-area jazz musicians will perform along with 20-30 established artists. Partnering with area arts councils and municipalities, Jazz in the Park draws families from varied ethnic, socio-economic, and geographic communities, increasing opportunities for residents to experience arts and culture closer to their homes. University of Alabama at Birmingham $20,000 Birmingham, AL Art Works - Dance To support the presentation of dance companies. Companies may include Alonzo King LINES Ballet, MOMIX, and Ballet Hispanico. Each will present public performances along with multiple community engagement activities such as pre-performance talks, master classes, lectures, design and technical workshops, and performances for students. Performances will take place at the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Alys Stephens Center. Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Inc. (aka Alabama Shakespeare Festival) $10,000 Montgomery, AL Art Works - Theater & Musical Theater To support the 2017 Southern Writers' Project. The Alabama Shakespeare Festival will commission, develop, and produce new works about the South and by Southern playwrights including the premiere of Jeffry Chastang's "Dauphin Island." The work explores the relationship of a homeless man driving through southern rural Alabama, and a woman in self-imposed exile. As many as four playwrights will participate in an immersive week of script writing. Each playwright will be matched with a director, a dramaturg, a stage manager, and actors to develop his or her play that will be shared at a public reading. Bolden, Emma $25,000 Pelham, AL Creative Writing Fellowship Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of December 7, 2016. Coleman Center for the Arts (aka Coleman Center for Arts And Culture) $25,000 York, AL Art Works - Visual Arts To support the project "Somewhere is Here: A Town Called York." Visual and performing artist Tameka Norris will embark on a year-long intervention in which she will immerse herself into the social, political, and cultural fabric of York, a small town in Alabama. These interactions will serve as a backdrop for Norris to explore her own rural Southern roots. The interactions will be filmed, and made available as short vignettes on small screens throughout the town. The project will culminate in a collaborative narrative film. Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of December 7, 2016. Alaska Number of Grants: 12 Total Dollar Amount: $262,500 Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc. $10,000 Anchorage, AK Challenge America To support the World Music and Multicultural Drumming Festival. Tlingit leader and proposed guest artist Lyle James will perform dance, storytelling, drumming, and song selections along with members of the Woosh.ji.een Dancers at a festival celebrating Alaska Native art and culture. A related workshop will teach traditional song, dance, and drumming, culminating in a public performance by James, the Woosh.ji.een Dancers, and workshop participants. Anchorage Concert Association, Inc. (aka ACA) $20,000 Anchorage, AK Art Works - Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works To support a multidisciplinary presenting series and related activities. Anchorage Concert Association will work with community partners to arrange workshops, residencies, house concerts, and other outreach activities. Participating artists will include Versa-Style Dance Company members, professional storytellers of The Moth, and musicians from the Portland Cello Project. Anchorage Museum Association (aka Anchorage Museum) $25,000 Anchorage, AK Art Works - Design To support Studio 61. Through a series of public programs, large-scale environmental graphics in public spaces, a line of designed products, and numerous artist exchanges, conversations, and commissions, the museum seeks to articulate the distinct meaning, value, and character of place at a time of environmental change. "61" refers to the latitude of Anchorage and other Northern cities such as Reykjavik, Helsinki, and Oslo, that also are being studied by scientists and others to understand the impacts of climate change. Through the project, artists and designers in these northern climates will share their vision of the environmental and cultural changes they witness due to climate change. Anchorage Museum Association (aka Anchorage Museum) $60,000 Anchorage, AK Art Works: Creativity Connects To support the creation and presentation of a series of virtual environments that will explore the ecology of the Arctic in partnership with the Alaska Center for Conservation Science. Through augmented reality and other experimental technologies, the organizations will work with artists and scientists on a series of projects including informal and formal exhibitions, events, and online presentations that will engage the public in immersive virtual environments as a way to convey the complexity of the Northern landscape through curated experiences. Artist John Grade will create a sculptural installation that represents a pingo, a naturally occurring land formation in the Arctic tundra. Visitors will experience the pingo environment as tactile sculptures while also using augmented reality glasses-turning the room into an Arctic experience with imagery and sound. Additionally, the artist duo Lead Pencil will present "Ephemeral State," a research-based art project using developing technologies to explore the many iterations of water. Anchorage Opera Company (aka Anchorage Opera) Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of December 7, 2016. $10,000 Anchorage, AK Art Works - Opera To support performances of "Glory Denied" by composer Tom Cipullo. The opera is based on the book by Tom Philpott, which tells the true story of the longest held prisoner of war in U.S. history, Colonel Floyd James Thompson. He was captured during his third month in Vietnam, spent nearly nine years as a prisoner of war-half in solitary confinement-and then returned home to an unfamiliar nation and an estranged family. The creative team may include director Helena Binder, scenic and video designer Scott Holdredge, and conductor Douglas Kinney Frost who will lead a cast that may include baritone Gregory Gerbrandt and soprano Jennifer Goode Cooper. An evening dress rehearsal for students, admission-free pre-performance lecture-demonstrations by the creative team, and a panel discussion involving some of the artists presented in the television studio of Alaska Public Media will round out this project. As many as four performances will occur at the Sydney Laurence Theatre in the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts in early 2017. Fairbanks Concert Association (aka FCA) $20,000 Fairbanks, AK Art Works - Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works To support a multidisciplinary performing arts series. The Concert Association will present artists in a series of performances and related engagement activities.