National Endowment for the Arts FY 2015 Spring Grant Announcement Artistic Field Listings Project details are current as of April 17, 2015. For the most up to date project information, please use the NEA's online grant search system. Projects are sorted by organization name within each artistic discipline or field. Click the discipline or field below to jump to that area of the document. 1. Art Works disciplines or fields Arts Education Dance Design Folk & Traditional Arts Literature Local Arts Agencies Media Arts Museums Music Opera Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works Theater & Musical Theater Visual Arts 2. State & Regional Partnerships 3. Research: Art Works Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of April 17, 2015. Page 1 of 200 Arts Education Number of Grants: 102 Total Dollar Amount: $3,348,000 Alabama Alliance for Arts Education $50,000 Montgomery, AL To support a collective impact project to develop a Statewide Comprehensive Arts Education Plan. Alabama Alliance for Arts Education and the Alabama State Council on the Arts will lead a collective impact project through communication, quarterly meetings, coordination of a leadership team, collection of statewide data on the status of arts education, and development of a shared agenda with measureable goals. The leadership team comprising diverse stakeholders was formed in 2013 as a direct result of Alabama's participation in the National Endowment for the Arts' Education Leaders Institute (ELI). Architecture Resource Center Inc. (aka ARC) $20,000 New Haven, CT To support the Design Connections Partnership. The partnership is a professional development initiative for public school teachers in New Haven on how to integrate art and design-based learning into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) lessons. Professional development will include artist residencies in schools, exhibitions of student art work, family activities, and a national conference presentation. Students will learn the principles of architecture, urban design, industrial design, engineering, and graphic design that they can apply to creative problem-solving. Partners will include Yale University Urban Design Workshop, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, and Curriculum Research Evaluation, Incorporated. Arts Connection (aka ArtsConnection) $40,000 New York, NY To support Developing English Language Literacy Through the Arts. The project is a professional development program for New York City public school teachers to collaborate in school-based teams using a residency model. Teaching artists and classroom teachers will create and deliver interdisciplinary units of study for English as a Second Language learners that will incorporate dance and theater with instruction in English language arts. The project will include a Video Study (a process developed by Arts Connection) that will improve teaching and develop a community of practice by systematically identifying observable evidence of learning in the arts, capturing it on video, analyzing it using a protocol, and sharing it for discussion among participants. ArtStart $10,000 Saint Paul, MN To support Reading the Landscape: Illuminating the Significance of Place. Working with artists and poets who are deeply knowledgeable in Dakota and Anishinaabe history and culture, Dakota language, poetry, visual and media arts, as well as the natural world, students and teachers will create art and poetry inspired by the ecology and history of environmentally significant places. The landscapes will include the Minnesota-Fort Snelling State Park in St. Paul and Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center near Duluth and Lake Superior. Students and teachers will participate in guided field trips, residencies, and professional development institutes to situate study and art-making in these sites. The project will focus on elementary and secondary students from underserved communities and their teachers. Austin Chamber Music Center (aka ACMC) $20,000 Austin, TX Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of April 17, 2015. Page 2 of 200 To support year-round chamber music instruction. The program will include a summer workshop, an academic year Saturday Academy, an in-school coaching program at Austin-area schools, and a summer residential Piano Trio Intensive for a competitively selected group of student piano trios. Professional teaching artists will provide chamber music coaching, music theory and composition classes, and master classes to elementary, middle, and high school students. Students and their families will have access to free concerts by professional music ensembles. Austin Classical Guitar Society (aka Austin Classical Guitar, ACG) $45,000 Austin, TX To support the Educational Outreach Program. The project is a classical guitar instruction program for students that includes professional development for teachers. Classical guitar instructors will provide free lessons to elementary, middle, and high school students in music theory, guitar finger positioning, and performance technique. Through teacher training workshops, hundreds of music educators in cities around the country will learn the society's classical guitar curriculum for use in their own guitar classes. The teacher-training component will expand to include an online teacher forum, online real-time consultation, and an option for teachers to submit original scores to the site. Austin Theatre Alliance (aka Paramount & Stateside Theatres) $15,000 Austin, TX To support Literacy to Life & STEM Through the Arts. Professional teaching artists will be in residence at Title I elementary schools, where they will work with classroom teachers to integrate the arts directly into the core language arts and STEM - science, technology, engineering, and math - curriculum. In the first phase, students in the program will receive Literacy to Life, which uses theater activities to teach creative writing and improve literacy rates; then, in the second phase, students will receive STEM Through the Arts, which will increase knowledge and retention of STEM concepts by integrating theater, music, dance, and film into STEM subject areas. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc. (aka Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO)) $50,000 Baltimore, MD To support OrchKids: Planting Seeds for a Bright Future program. A free choral and instrumental instruction program in Baltimore City Public Schools, the project will serve as a national model for El Sistema in the United States. Professional musicians will provide year-round, in-school, and after-school music training to pre- kindergarten through high school students in Title I schools in Baltimore. Program components will include early childhood music classes, a Bucket Band, choir classes, Jazz Band, chamber music ensembles, and field trips for students and their families to attend professional concerts. A summer session will provide music instruction and academic tutoring each July. Batoto Yetu, Inc. (aka Batoto Yetu) $10,000 New York City, NY To support an Africa in the Schools Residency. Students in Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) charter schools in Harlem will learn African dance, language, and music - as well as contextual African art and history lessons - that make connections to language arts, natural science, and mathematics. The program will develop the children's physical coordination, concentration, and interpersonal skills while also developing cultural awareness of the arts and African heritage among the students, who are predominantly African-American. KIPP is a nationwide Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of April 17, 2015. Page 3 of 200 network of free open-enrollment college-preparatory schools in under-resourced communities throughout the United States. Boston Public Schools $100,000 Boston, MA To support a two-year collective impact project to sustain and deepen the work of the Boston Public Schools Arts Expansion Initiative in high schools. The project will increase the number of graduates who meet Massachusetts Common Core Standards in art and build a foundation for further developing the effort in targeted schools. Schools, teaching artists, and partners will engage in professional development and provide new arts classes while partners in the community will secure financial support, track and analyze outcomes, and plan how to reach all Boston Public School students. BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, Inc. (aka BRIC) $40,000 Brooklyn, NY To support a contemporary art school-based residency and teacher training program. Students in under- resourced neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx will develop their critical thinking and language skills through discussions of visual arts at the BRIC Media House Gallery, visits to contemporary art galleries, and in-school classroom workshops and student exhibitions. Classroom teachers will participate in staff development workshops that include hands-on arts experiences and integrating the arts into their teaching practice. Caldera (aka Camp Caldera) $60,000 Portland, OR To support The Geography of We: Solar Constant. The project is year-round transmedia arts project for underserved Oregon youth. Program components will include an overnight summer arts camp, in-school and after-school arts learning sessions, Saturday classes, spring break