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