National Endowment for the Arts FY 2016 Spring Grant Announcement State/City Listings Project details are current as of April 26, 2016. For the most up to date project information, please use the NEA's online grant search system. Included in this document are awards in the funding categories of Art Works, State & Regional Partnerships, Research: Art Works, and Our Town. All are organized by state/jurisdiction and then by city, with the exception of the State & Regional Partnership awards which appear at the top of each state/jurisdiction. Click the state or jurisdiction below to jump to that area of the document. Alabama Kentucky Ohio Alaska Louisiana Oklahoma American Samoa Maine Oregon Arizona Maryland Pennsylvania Arkansas Massachusetts Puerto Rico California Michigan Rhode Island Colorado Minnesota South Carolina Connecticut Mississippi South Dakota Delaware Missouri Tennessee District of Columbia Montana Texas Florida Nebraska Utah Georgia Nevada Vermont Guam New Hampshire Virginia Hawaii New Jersey Virgin Islands Idaho New Mexico Washington Illinois New York West Virginia Indiana North Carolina Wisconsin Iowa North Dakota Wyoming Kansas Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of April 26, 2016. Alaska Number of Grants: 8 Total Dollar Amount: $975,500 Alaska State Council on the Arts $705,500 Anchorage, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional To support Partnership Agreement activities in the state. Alaska Design Forum, Inc. (aka Alaska Design Forum) $30,000 Anchorage, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design To support the lecture series Nostalgia. Featuring architects, designers, and thinkers such as artist Andrea Zittel, fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, and environmentalist farmer Joel Salatin, the series will explore how we embrace, reject, or leverage the human tendency towards nostalgia, or the yearning for a previous time, place, or experience. Events will be hosted in Alaska's major cities - Anchorage, Juneau, and Fairbanks. Anchorage Museum Association (aka Anchorage Museum) $25,000 Anchorage, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum To support "On the Edge," an exhibition, public programming, and a public art installation. The project will examine issues related to food production, consumption, and sustainability unique to the Arctic. Developed in partnership with the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, the project will present work by more than a dozen artists as well as a variety of activities to engage the public. An installation by the artist Edgar Heap of Birds (b. 1954) will address issues related to sustenance, language, and place unique to the Dena'ina Athabascans, the first people of Anchorage. Anchorage Symphony Orchestra $15,000 Anchorage, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: 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. University of Alaska at Anchorage $15,000 Anchorage, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater & Musical Theater To support the production and tour of "Stalking the Bogeyman," a new play based on an original, true story by Alaskan writer and journalist David Holthouse. The play deals with sexual abuse and its impact on individuals, families, and society-a significant problem in Alaska, which has the highest rate of rape in the U.S. The project includes a tour of the production in South Central Alaska, community engagement at each tour site, and subsequent documentation, publication, and dissemination of the artistic and community engagement process. Clinical support coordinated by the Psychology faculty at the university will be available on site at performances and outreach events. The university also plans to develop mechanisms for public response to performances and events, which may include writing or recording of comments, or the creation of art about audience members' reflections or responses to the play. Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of April 26, 2016. Sealaska Heritage Institute (aka SHI) $100,000 Juneau, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design: Our Town To support Haa Latseen Community Project - strength, resilience, and opportunities through the arts. Sealaska Heritage Institute will conduct Native Alaskan woodworking and small business classes designed to provide creative entrepreneurship opportunities for tribal and non-tribal residents in Juneau, Alaska. The project includes partnerships with the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council, City and Borough of Juneau, Tlingit and Haida Regional Housing Authority, Alaska State Council on the Arts, Sealaska Corporation, and Lemon Creek Correctional Center. The arts and business-based programming will assist a cohort of more than 40 low-income individuals of mostly Alaska Native heritage with transitions from incarceration to release and economic self- sufficiency through teaching them to make native art objects for sale at the institute's highly trafficked center. Sealaska Heritage Institute (aka SHI) $10,000 Juneau, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education To support the Jineit Art Academy - Northwest Coast (NWC) Arts for Youth. Professional NWC artists from SHI's Native Artists Committee will teach traditional "formline" design to students. Formline is a term used to describe the primary distinguishing feature of the northern Northwest Coast 2D design style. Project activities will include student artwork exhibitions where the visiting artists will make presentations based on their experiences learning, creating, and teaching NWC art. The project will increase the number of students exposed to and creating NWC art in Southeast Alaska, institutionalizing NWC arts in their general art instruction. Organized Village of Kasaan $75,000 Ketchikan, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design: Our Town To support the reintroduction of Haida canoe carving skills to the Native village of Kasaan. Project activities include studying the Haida canoe form using historic photos and museum pieces, hosting canoe and paddle carving workshops, collaboratively carving two traditional Haida canoes, and introducing contemporary materials to the art form to construct at least two additional canoes. The Kasaan Haida Heritage Foundation and Organized Village of Kasaan will partner to foster meaningful interaction among community residents, Tribal members, Native woodworkers, and non-Native carvers. More than 10 artists and 700 participants will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to carve and preserve these cornerstones of Haida culture that were lost in the past 100 years. Alabama Number of Grants: 5 Total Dollar Amount: $875,400 Alabama State Council on the Arts $775,400 Montgomery, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional To support Partnership Agreement activities in the state. Auburn University Main Campus $20,000 Auburn, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of April 26, 2016. 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 titled "Art on the Inside" will be presented, accompanied by an anthology of student produced creative works. Alabama Folklife Association, Inc. (aka Alabama Folklife Association) $20,000 Birmingham, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts To support Alabama Makers: Discovery and Showcase. Trained folklorists will conduct fieldwork to identify and document folk artists. The documentation will be deposited in the Archive of Alabama Folk Culture at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. The folk artists - which will include musicians, storytellers, and crafts people - will present public concerts, demonstrations, and exhibits in downtown Birmingham. Birmingham Children's Theatre, Inc. (aka BCT) $10,000 Birmingham, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater & Musical Theater To support "Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott" by playwright Sue Greenberg. BCT will conduct workshops for youth in their community to develop stories that will couple with the Rosa Parks' story for a stage presentation. Playwriting workshops will teach student writers to develop their writing skills and create a platform for creative expression. Students will be guided through a series of exercises and assignments to translate their stories into the play format. Community anecdotal information collected from interviews and questionnaires will support the creation process. Professional actors, directors, and college interns will collaborate with the playwright to fashion the selected stories into a performance piece to be performed as a main stage production. Arts Council, Inc. $50,000 Huntsville, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design: Our Town To support architectural and landscape designs for the redevelopment of