State District Organization Name Discipline / Field City Project Description Fiscal Year Grant Amount To support the translation from the German of "The Art of Topiary," selected poems by German poet Jan Wagner. Wagner (b. 1971) is the award-winning author of six poetry collections, as well as a translator of Anglo-American poetry, an essayist, editor, and literary critic. His poetry has been translated into 30 DC 0 Keplinger, David Literature Washington 2017 $12,500 languages. Not readily categorized, Wagner writes both formal and free verse poems. This collection includes a sonnet about a rhino, a long haiku series about rain barrels, and a sestina with the book's title poem, in which the repeated words describe a garden that eats its creator. To support the translation from the Czech of the novel "Heaven Has No Ground" by Hana Andronikova. This is the final novel of Andronikova (1967-2011), who died of cancer less than a year after it was published in 2011 and just weeks before receiving, for the second time, the Czech Republic's highest literary prize, the Magnesia Litera Award. The bestselling, autobiographical novel depicts the author's early decision to forego conventional medical treatments in search of a more holistic solution, and describes her DC 0 Kostovski, Roman Literature Washington 2017 $12,500 subsequent journeys to consult a shaman in the Amazon jungle, travel through the Nevada desert, and climb Israel's Mount Masada in pursuit of some spiritual insight that would allow her to cope with her fate and, ultimately, return to Prague to fight for her life. The story is told in large part from diary entries, email correspondence, and Skype transcriptions of conversations with her family and friends, interspersed with stream of consciousness, dreams, and hallucinations or visions. To support the translation from the Spanish of "Fauna," a play by Argentine writer Romina Paula. Paula (b. 1979) is a critically acclaimed playwright, film actor, theater director, and novelist. Paula's dramaturgical work has toured the international theater circuit, premiering in Brazil, Chile, Spain, France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Germany, but none of her plays have been translated into English. "Fauna" centers on the making of a film DC 0 Werth, Brenda Literature Washington 2018 $12,500 that will never take place. The film brings together a daughter, a son, an actress, and a director in the attempt to tell the story of Fauna, a wild but well-read, otherworldly being who over the course of her lifetime becomes Fauno. Featuring dialogue with such figures as Shakespeare, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Dorothea Lange, the play explores how to tell the story of one's life and how to decipher where reality ends and fiction begins. To support the Creative Counties Placemaking Challenge, a Knowledge Building project. The National Association of Counties Research Foundation will facilitate networks of county officials and arts professionals to advance creative placemaking in rural and mid-sized communities. Through in-person workshops National Association of including skill building sessions, panel discussions, and tours of DC 1 Counties Research Design Washington successful creative placemaking projects, the project will focus on 2017 $100,000 Foundation county-level leaders to build creative placemaking capacity among local governments. NACoRF will collaborate with Americans for the Arts to develop workshop curricula and deliver training webinars. During the grant period, the project will engage approximately 48 participants representing communities with populations no greater than 250,000 residents. To support the creation of a new contemporary ballet by Artistic Director Diane Coburn Bruning. The piece will be based on a DC 1 Chamber Dance Project Dance Washington Nordic legend and will feature a commissioned score by The Red 2017 $10,000 Clay Ramblers. Bruning will layer elements of storytelling in the work. To support residencies for emerging artists with a focus on public participatory programs. Through an open juried process, as many as eight U.S. and four international artists focusing on social DC 1 S&R Foundation Artist Communities Washington 2017 $25,000 practice art will be chosen. As part of their residency, U.S. and international artists will work with local high school students and artists from the area. To support the publication of "Design for Good." Published by Island Press and written by architect John Cary, who helped to popularize the public interest design movement, this book will Island Press-Center for show how thoughtful design can influence the respect we give to DC 1 Design Washington 2017 $20,000 Resource Economics others and ourselves. Diverse case studies will examine design and architecture projects that address social, economic, and environmental issues and offer people a dignified experience of the place. To support the CapitalBop Traveling Loft concert series and educational activities. Headline artists will perform in double bills with leading D.C.-based performers at various venues around D.C. DC 1 CapitalBop, Inc. Music Washington 2017 $12,500 such as THEARC, the Fridge, Capital Fringe, and New York University's Abramson Family Auditorium. Free master classes for youth are included. DC 1 dog & pony dc Theater Washington N/A 2017 $10,000 To support a photography education and youth empowerment program. During the school year and in the summer, high school students from underserved neighborhoods will explore their artistic and leadership potential in their schools and communities through photography and creative writing workshops led by DC 1 Critical Exposure Arts Education Washington 2017 $15,000 teaching artists. In collaboration with classroom educators in D.C. public schools, teaching artists will guide students to create their own visual stories of identity and perseverance. Student work will be exhibited in galleries, libraries, and other public spaces throughout D.C. To support the creation and presentation of new dance works. Artistic Director Dana Tai Soon Burgess will create three new dance works, each inspired by three new exhibitions at the Moving Forward: National Portrait Gallery: "The Face of Battle: Americans At War, Contemporary Asian DC 1 Dance Washington 9/11 to Now," "The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American 2017 $10,000 American Dance Workers," and "One Life: Sylvia Plath." The company will hold Company open rehearsals, enabling museum visitors to watch Burgess and the dancers create and rehearse. The new dances will be performed multiple times at the museum, free-of-charge. To support Life Stories, an in-school theater residency program for youth. Through improvisation, storytelling, script development, scene study, and acting, middle and high school students from underserved communities will explore social issues and develop teamwork and communication skills. Guided by professional DC 1 Theatre Lab Arts Education Washington 2017 $20,000 teaching artists, students will create original work using one of three models: monologue, films featuring improvised and scripted scenes, or fully staged live performances. The project will culminate in a public performance and facilitated discussion at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. To support youth programs and the Split This Rock Poetry Festival. A biannual event, the festival hosts writers from across the nation for a long weekend of workshops, panels, readings, and a book fair. Committed poets include Kwame Dawes and Solmaz Sharif, DC 1 Split This Rock, Inc. Literature Washington and Split This Rock will present a short documentary in celebration 2017 $40,000 of the festival's tenth year. Youth programs include after-school poetry clubs, a youth slam team, writing workshops, and open mic events, helping students to develop artistic skills and learn the value of their own creative voices. To support performances of a concert of opera excerpts that will musically explore Versailles during the reigns of Louis XIV, XV, and XVI. The concert will feature three soloists, a small chorus, and a period instrument chamber orchestra. Performances are DC 1 Opera Lafayette Opera Washington 2017 $20,000 scheduled to occur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium as part of he MetLiveArts series (New York City) and George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium (Washington, D.C.) in spring 2018. To support the 2017 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital. Held in the spring with events programmed around the D.C. metropolitan area, the festival presents films including Environmental Film documentary, narrative, animated, experimental, and short films DC 1 Festival in the Nation's Media Arts Washington about environmental issues. Filmmakers, scientists, 2017 $20,000 Capital environmental experts, and educators are invited to speak at the screenings in alignment with the festival's mission of advancing public understanding of the environment through the power of film. To support a concert opera production of "Leonore" by composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution and fervent nationalism, Beethoven composed his only opera in 1805 as a response to the social and political climate of the time. The opera tells the story of Leonore, a noble-woman of Seville, who disguises herself as a male prison guard named Fidelio Washington Concert DC 1 Opera Washington in order to rescue her husband Florestan, a political prisoner, from 2017 $15,000 Opera death. In 1814, after the