National Endowment For The Arts FY 2017 Spring Grant .

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National Endowment for the ArtsFY 2017 Spring Grant AnnouncementArtistic Discipline/Field ListingsProject details are accurate as of June 5, 2017. For the most up to date project information, please usethe NEA's online grant search system.Click the grant category or artistic discipline/field below to jump to that area of the document.1. Art Works grants by discipline/field Arts Education Dance Folk & Traditional Arts Literature Local Arts Agencies Media Arts Museums Music Opera Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works Theater & Musical Theater Visual Arts2. Research: Art Works Grants3. Our Town Grants4. Partnerships (State & Regional)

Arts EducationNumber of Grants: 113Total Dollar Amount: 3,375,000Abada-Capoeira San Francisco 10,000San Francisco, CATo support the expansion of a capoeira residency and performance program for students in SanFrancisco area schools. Students will learn capoeira, a traditional Afro-Brazilian art form that combinesritual, self-defense, acrobatics, and music in a rhythmic dialogue of the body, mind, and spirit. Studentswill develop their physical and cognitive skills through weekly classes with professional artists, learningthe physical elements of the art form, the music, historical and cultural information, and performanceconcepts. Students will work in partners and as a group, interacting in an atmosphere that encouragescreativity and spontaneity. Emphasis will be placed on teamwork, concentration, and the use ofmovement, rhythm, and song as methods of expression.Actors' Shakespeare Project (aka ASP) 30,000Somerville, MATo support Shakespeare Inside and Out youth theater programs. Participating youth (many of whom areinvolved in the court system) develop artistic, literacy, social, and pre-professional skills through thestudy of Shakespeare and other ensemble-based theater projects. Through residencies, after-schoolprograms, a summer intensive, and leadership development, participants have the opportunity to createand share their own work. This project supports the Massachusetts Department of Youth Service's goalto create systemic change by incorporating arts education into all of its facilities. All activities culminatein a public performance and youth-led, post-show discussions.American Festival for the Arts (aka AFA) 15,000Houston, TXTo support Summer Music Conservatory, a music education program for students from the greaterHouston area. For several weeks during the summer, professional musicians and music educators willprovide instruction in strings, piano, choir, wind and brass instruments, and music composition.Students will participate in large ensembles, chamber or small ensembles, individual coaching sessions,and musicianship classes. In summer 2017, the program will expand to include elementary level pianoand orchestra. Conservatory faculty and guest conductors will ensure students gain skills and knowledgein music as well as learn the value of teamwork, discipline, motivation, and leadership. Students areselected through an audition process, and scholarships are widely available.Architecture Resource Center Inc. (aka ARC) 10,000New Haven, CTTo support the Design Connections Partnership. The professional development program, whichintegrates arts learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects, will serveteachers in New Haven Public Schools. Master teaching artists, architects, and designers fromArchitecture Resource Center and Yale University will mentor and collaborate with classroom teachersand art teachers through professional development sessions and school residencies. Students will learnhow to express themselves through the visual arts, how to communicate their ideas, how to work inteams to solve problems, and how to apply academic concepts in their lives and their communities.Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is currentas of June 5, 2017.Page 2

Arts Every Day, Inc (aka Arts Every Day) 50,000Baltimore, MDTo support Baltimore Arts Equity Initative (BAEI), a collective impact project to develop infrastructureand an implementation approach for arts education in Baltimore City Public Schools. Arts Every Day willengage key stakeholders, including Baltimore Arts Education Coalition, Arts Education in MarylandSchools, Maryland State Department of Education, Maryland Out of School Time, Family League ofBaltimore, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance, and T. Rowe Price Foundation to support andexpand upon Baltimore City Public Schools' Fine Arts Plan. In the first year, the project's leadership teamand committees will research local and national collective impact arts education models, assess needs,define shared goals and indicators, and connect the BAEI plan to citywide cultural planning processes. Inthe second year of the project, BAEI will pilot an arts-rich program in several schools, collect data,leverage new and existing resources, adopt and implement district policies that meet state artseducation standards, and produce and present a State of the Arts progress report. The majority ofstudents in Baltimore City Schools are eligible for free or reduced lunch, an indicator of poverty.Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University 15,000Chicago, ILTo support the Auditorium Theatre ArtsXChange program. Teaching Artist Mentors will be hired toprovide year-long professional development to Chicago Public School teachers through workshops andclassroom residencies. Teachers and their mentors will work together to design, facilitate, and assessstudent art-making, with teachers providing more instructional leadership over time. The residenciesinclude opportunities for teachers and their students to experience matinee performances at theAuditorium Theatre, a national historic landmark. The project is aligned with the Chicago Public SchoolsArts Education Plan.Austin Chamber Music Center (aka ACMC) 20,000Austin, TXTo support year-round chamber music instruction. The program includes a two-and-a-half week summerchamber music workshop, a ten-day chamber music residential camp, an academic year SaturdayChamber Music Academy, and an in-school coaching program at Austin-area schools. The summerworkshop occurs simultaneously with the Austin Chamber Music Festival, and festival artists such as theVienna Piano Trio and the Tokyo String Quartet will present master classes to participants. Students inthe chamber music residential camp will have the benefit of learning from professional artists-inresidence. In the Saturday Chamber Music Academy and in-school programs, professional teachingartists will provide chamber music coaching, music theory and composition classes, and master classesto elementary, middle, and high school students.Austin Classical Guitar Society (aka Austin Classical Guitar (ACG)) 55,000Austin, TXTo support Classical Guitar Education in the Schools. The project is a classical guitar instruction programfor students in Central Texas that includes professional development for teachers. Classical guitarinstructors will provide lessons to elementary, middle, and high school students in music theory, guitarfinger positioning, and performance technique. Public, private, and charter schools will be served,including a braille-adapted course at Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and special classesfor court-involved youth in Travis County. Additional program components will include guest artistperformances in the schools and the opportunity for students to audition for the Classical Guitar YouthSome details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is currentas of June 5, 2017.Page 3

Orchestra. Through national teacher training workshops, hundreds of music educators in cities aroundthe country will learn the Austin Classical Guitar curriculum for use in their own guitar classes.Austin Independent School District (aka AISD) 100,000Austin, TXTo support the collective impact project Breaking Down Barriers: Sustaining Creative Learning Campusesin Austin. Creative Learning Initiative seeks to provide a quality arts-rich education for each and everychild in AISD and professional development and ongoing support for teachers in arts-based instructionalstrategies. The collaboration of AISD, the City of Austin, MINDPOP, local artists, businesses, andphilanthropic organizations has supported AISD campuses in the completion of foundational phases toincrease their capacity to become arts-rich schools. This project will facilitate the transition of campusesto their sustaining phases by offering individualized coaching to campus leaders, support for thecreation of campus-specific sustainability plans, and resources and handbooks to guide planning anddecision-making, as well as a Leadership Institute and follow-up Learning Exchanges.BRIC Arts Media Bklyn, Inc. (aka BRIC) 50,000Brooklyn, NYTo support the expansion of visual arts education programs and curatorial fellowships for students inNew York City. Students from underserved communities will develop critical thinking and language skillsthrough 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 staffdevelopment workshops that include hands-on arts experiences and integrating the arts into theirteaching practice. In addition to the school residencies, students will develop, manage, and curate BRIC'sYouth Media Festival in Brooklyn through the Youth Curatorial Fellowship, a dual-track fellowshipfocused on curation and professional development.Baltimore School for the Arts Foundation, Inc. (aka Baltimore School for the Arts, TWIGS) 20,000Baltimore, MDTo support the expansion of TWIGS (To Work In Gaining Skills), a free multidisciplinary arts educationprogram. Students from underserved communities will take classes in dance, music, visual arts, theater,media arts, and stage production during after-school hours and on Saturdays. The project curriculumwill build upon the natural talents and interests students have in the arts while developing beneficial lifeskills and expanding their arts literacy. In addition, students will receive additional hours of auditionpreparation with teaching artists. Support will allow the Baltimore School for the Arts to expand thedance and music classes to 28 weeks. Project partners will include the Boys and Girls Club ofMetropolitan Baltimore, the Family League of Baltimore, and the Baltimore City Council.Barrel of Monkeys Productions (aka Barrel of Monkeys) 10,000Chicago, ILTo support creative writing and theater residency programs. Creative writing and drama residencies willtake place in underserved elementary schools and will promote literacy, writing skills, and social andemotional development, while exposing students to the performing arts. The curriculum includestheater games, collaborative story writing activities, group performance opportunities, and individualwriting time, with the objectives of building students' creative writing skills, collaborative abilities, andconfidence in self-expression. Each residency will culminate in a schoolwide performance of storieswritten by the students and adapted into sketches and songs by professional actors and musicians. TheSome details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is currentas of June 5, 2017.Page 4

project is in alignment with citywide efforts to improve the delivery of arts education to Chicago publicschool students.Broadway Center for the Performing Arts (aka Broadway Center) 10,000Tacoma, WATo support Latino Folkloric Arts Education Initiative. Students will participate in after-school andsummer immersion programs in ballet folklorico and world drumming. Students will perform at variouscommunity venues for their peers, teachers, parents, and the community. Best practices and scalablemodels from the initiative will be disseminated through a white paper, presentations at regional artsconferences, and publications.Caldera (aka Camp Caldera) 35,000Portland, ORTo support a year-round transmedia arts project for Oregon youth from underserved communities. TheGeography of We program includes an overnight summer arts camp, in-school and after-school artslearning sessions, Saturday classes, spring break workshops, and professional development for teachingartists. Focused on storytelling techniques that range from traditional forms to digital media,professional artists in film, animation, photography, writing, music, painting, sculpture, and design willguide students to explore their identity through the central theme of air. Students will create andshowcase both web-based and physical maps that link their art to a sense of place.California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts) (On behalf of Community Arts Partnership) 35,000Valencia, CATo support the CalArts Community Arts Partnership Summer Arts (CAPSA) program. In partnership withthe Los Angeles Unified School District, CalArts art faculty will provide high school students tuition-free,intensive arts instruction in acting, animation, creative writing, dance, music, and visual art. Participantswill go on field trips to arts exhibitions, theatrical productions, screenings, and concerts. The projectculminates in documentation of student work for portfolios and auditions, and a day-long performanceand exhibition for parents and the surrounding community.Cantare Con Vivo 10,000Oakland, CATo support the Children's Choirs of Oakland program. Program components will include tuition-free, inschool music classes for students of all grade levels in the Oakland Unified School District. Teachingartists will teach fundamental music skills and integrate music into language arts and social studies,covering topics such as Native American and early colonial music, sea shanties, spirituals, and music ofthe Civil Rights Era. In after-school choir classes, students will learn vocal music concepts and sing in avariety of languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Mandarin, and Japanese. Theprogram will also feature the Honor Choir, the Spira Choir, and the Nova Choir for middle and highschool students, who will have multiple opportunities to perform in concerts and community events.Center for World Music (aka Center for World Music and Related Arts) 15,000Encinitas, CATo support artist-teachers and related costs for World Music and Dance in the Schools. Artists fromaround the globe will provide weekly hands-on instruction in the traditional music and dance of Asia,Latin America, Africa, and Europe for San Diego-area school students. The artist-teachers, who areculture-bearers and experts in their fields, will use teaching styles that reflect the culture from whichSome details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is currentas of June 5, 2017.Page 5

their art forms come and the traditions that they uphold. By introducing students to master artists, theywill learn about unique musical and dance traditions from many different cultures, explore andunderstand their place in the world, and develop creativity and self-confidence.Changing Worlds 10,000Chicago, ILTo support the Peacemakers Project. Residencies at partner school sites will be led by a teaching artistand literacy specialist team working in collaboration with a classroom art teacher and a language artsteacher during the school day. The curriculum will promote long-term academic success and civicengagement through integrating peacemaking with arts learning and creative writing. Students willexamine issues affecting their neighborhoods, create original writings and works of art about thecontributions of community members to peacemaking, and implement a strategy to share the messageof peacemaking in their communities.Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (aka CAPE) 75,000Chicago, ILTo support Collaboration Laboratory. The project is an after-school and weekend professionaldevelopment and coaching for Chicago Public School administrators and teachers. Participants will learnhow to use inquiry-based, arts integrated teaching. Teaching artists and teachers will collaborate inusing new skills learned in the classroom through residencies during the school year. CAPE's longstanding partners, including arts organizations, galleries, and community groups throughout Chicago,provide resources such as teaching artist development, and insight on school and community needs.City and County of San Francisco, California (aka San Francisco Arts Commission) (On behalf ofWritersCorps) 34,000San Francisco, CATo support San Francisco WritersCorps. The project is a creative writing program that serves youth fromunderserved communities. Working primarily in language arts classrooms and using creative writingactivities thematically linked to literature, writers will work in schools for approximately eight months tosupplement the curricula and strengthen students' writing skills. Activities will take place during andafter the school day, primarily in underserved public schools, juvenile halls, arts and social serviceorganizations, and public libraries. Support for teaching artists includes monthly cohort meetings andprofessional development trainings. Students' work will be published in anthologies, chapbooks, andbroadsides; recorded for social media; and performed at a variety of poetry events, including the annualliterary festival WordStorm.Collaborative for Educational Services, Inc. 30,000Northampton, MATo support the Speak Up, Speak Out: Girls in the Juvenile Justice System Explore Arts and Self project. Aprofessional teaching artist from Enchanted Circle Theater will lead an arts integration program for teengirls in Department of Youth Services (DYS) Treatment Centers in Massachusetts. The project activitieswill build self-awareness, positive self-presentation skills, and artistic expression for girls in trauma andtransition. The project curriculum will incorporate self-reflection to gauge artistic vision, communicationskills, productivity, and motivation.Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is currentas of June 5, 2017.Page 6

Community-Word Project, Inc. (aka CWP) 25,000New York, NYTo support the Collaborative Arts Residencies Program. Teams of teaching artists working withclassroom teachers and librarians will lead a literature program that incorporates performance andvisual arts. Students will study a diverse group of authors and learn to write and revise individual andcollaborative work. In addition, students will participate in public readings and create painted canvasmurals based on a line of poetry chosen from one of their poems. Their work also will be included in ananthology of poetry and prose. Each program site will host culminating performances and exhibitions ofstudents' work for peers, teachers, and families. Youth from underserved elementary and secondaryschools and public libraries are expected to participate in the program throughout the school year.Country Music Foundation, Inc. (aka Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum) 25,000Nashville, TNTo support Words & Music. Museum educators and professional songwriters provide year-longprofessional developmment for teachers in the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools to incorporateinto class curriculum the Words & Music Teacher's Guide and sequential lesson plans to teach studentsabout the art of songs and the aesthetic techniques of creating lyrics. In the classroom, teachers willlead their students in creating and revising their lyrics through a process of experimentation withtraditional song structures and components of effective lyrics. Folk and country music songwriting isbased in oral traditions and passed along from mentors to apprentices through co-writing and creativeproblem solving. Students will gain access to these traditions by working with professional songwritersfrom the Nashville music industry, who will guide the students to set their lyrics to music. In alignmentwith the school district's Music Makes Us initiative, teachers receive training to link Words & Music toEnglish Langauge Arts curricula, including composition and revision, vocabulary, themes, messages,titles, and rhyme.Critical Exposure (aka Critical Exposure) 15,000Washington, DCTo support a photography education and youth empowerment program. During the school year and inthe summer, high school students from underserved neighborhoods will explore their artistic andleadership potential in their schools and communities through photography and creative writingworkshops led by 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. Projectpartners will include Women Photojournalists of Washington, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting,and FotoWeek DC.DC Youth Orchestra Program (aka DCYOP) 15,000Washington, DCTo support the Children's Orchestra, an after-school string orchestra program for D.C. public schoolstudents in Title I elementary schools. At no cost to the students or the school, teaching artists willprovide as many as two hours of instrumental music instruction three times each week through grouplessons and string orchestra rehearsals. The project has served two schools and is expanding to a thirdschool. In addition, the project will include side-by-side performances and master classes withprofessional musicians, such as those from the National Symphony Orchestra, and the opportunity toperform in professional concert venues, such as The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts andTHEARC.Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is currentas of June 5, 2017.Page 7

Deep Center, Incorporated (aka Deep Center) 20,000Savannah, GATo support Savannah Stories, a creative writing literacy program for youth. After-school workshops willtake place in public schools and community centers and will be led by professional teaching writerstrained in Deep Center's curriculum. Workshops will include instruction in creative writing skills, one-onone mentoring, and feedback. Student work will be featured in printed anthologies and performed atpublic readings and book launch events. The program serves middle and high school youth.Diversity of Dance, Inc. (aka Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts) 20,000Brooklyn, NYTo support Arts Express, a series of dance residencies. Student teams will study dance pioneers in adance history project during the school year where they are encouraged to learn from one another in anexchange of techniques, ideas, and experiences that culminates in written, oral, and performancepresentations. Students and dance artists will come together during an intensive residential summerprogram. Students also will participate in technique classes such as ballet, modern, African, jazz, andhip-hop. They will learn about fitness, wellness and nutrition, and will participate in repertory rehearsalsand guest master workshops. Students will participate in question-and-answer talks with theprofessional dancers to learn about their artistic journeys and discuss college and career opportunities.Intended to serve high school students from different states, the master residencies will culminate witha spring concert performance.DreamYard Project, Inc. (aka DreamYard) 40,000Bronx, NYTo support professional development and coaching of elementary school teachers. The project willexpand the number of classroom teachers collaborating with teaching artists to develop curriculum thatintegrates music, poetry, dance, and visual arts and implement it during in-school, after-school, andsummer residencies. The professional development and residencies are aligned with New York CityDepartment of Education's Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts and the John F. KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts' approach to arts integration. Online student learning portfolios willmeasure the effectiveness of the project and remain as an archive of their original work, creativeprocess, and personal reflections.Dynamic Forms, Inc. (aka Mark DeGarmo Dance) 25,000New York, NYTo support Partnerships in Learning through Dance and Creativity, a year-long dance program in NewYork City public schools. Mark DeGarmo Dance teaching artists will provide year-round dance instructionin performance, choreography, and improvisational skills. Students will reflect on their work throughdance journals, learn dance vocabulary, and dance notation. Students will create original choreographyaround themes such as Community, Animals, Humor, Social Justice: African-American History, orFreedom and Democracy's Rights & Responsibilities. Program teaching methods are designed withspecial education students in mind to ensure inclusive participation at every partner school. Selectedstudent work will be performed at in-school events and at the MoveUP! Dance Festival.Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is currentas of June 5, 2017.Page 8

ETM-LA, Inc. (aka Education Through Music-Los Angeles) 25,000Burbank, CATo support weekly, year-long music instruction for students in Los Angeles public schools. Teachingartists will provide general music and instrumental music instruction to students through in-schoolclasses in strings, ukulele, band, guitar, recorder, and chorus. Students will perform in mid-year andyear-end student concerts at school as well as in the community. The program will include professionaldevelopment for classroom teachers to learn how to integrate the arts into the curriculum. Participatingschools host community events and festivals, and students will have the opportunity to attend eventssuch as professional symphony concerts.Education Through Music, Inc. (aka ETM) 45,000New York, NYTo support the Bronx Partner School Program. The year-long music education program for youth in theBronx will include weekly music instruction for students by qualified teaching artists; customized,ongoing training and professional development for school music teachers, classroom teachers, andprincipals; and outreach to parents and the community. Through long-term partnerships with schools,project activities will support student learning in music as well as build capacity among school andcommunity members to sustain music programs. The program will include resource manuals forteachers, school performances by professional artists, and performance opportunities for students atcommunity events, including an annual festival that will bring Education Through Music schoolstogether.Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center-Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance (aka Kaufman MusicCenter) 20,000New York, NYTo support the Music Program at Special Music School P.S. 859. Teaching artists will provide free privateinstrumental lessons, performance opportunities, and classes in theory, music history, and chorus at theSpecial Music School at P.S. 859, the only K-12 public school for musically gifted students in the NewYork City Department of Education. The school's curriculum is based on a standardized course ofacademic study, delivered alongside a conservatory-quality music program during the regular schoolday. Working with an accomplished faculty, students will become proficient and knowledgeablemusicians performing regularly and interacting with notable guests and resident artists such as flutistJames Galway and violinist Joshua Bell.Engaging Creative Minds (aka ECM) 36,000Charleston, SCTo support Engaging Creative Minds' Tri-County Continuous Improvement and Evaluation System.Curriculum coaches work with school-based teams of teachers from Charleston County School District toselect an art form to address learning standards that are difficult for students to grasp. Planningtogether, the teaching artists and teachers develop a curriculum unit and work in classrooms withstudents. Teaching artists engage students in creative ways to reach higher levels of learning throughthe arts while also providing professional development for teachers to learn to integrate similar creativeapproaches into their curriculum.Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is currentas of June 5, 2017.Page 9

Epic Theatre Center, Inc. (aka Epic Theatre Ensemble) 35,000New York, NYTo support year-round in-school and after-school theater residencies. Led by teaching artists, youth willstudy classical and modern plays in residencies tailored to the specific needs of underserved public highschools. The in-school residencies will include research, script analysis, character development,improvisation, creation of original work, and rehearsal and performance for community audiences.Students also may elect to participate in after-school and summer programs. Participants in the afterschool Shakespeare Remix will study, rehearse, and perform an adaptation of a Shakespearean playalongside professional theater artists. Epic NEXT, a six-week summer intensive will provide extendedskill building through one-on-one mentorships and creation and touring of new work.Eskolta School Research and Design, Inc. (aka Eskolta) 25,000New York, NYTo support Arts Forward, a multidisciplinary arts program. Year-round, in- and after-school artsinstruction will be provided for over-age and under-credited students with histories of chronic truancyand/or special

artists will provide chamber music coaching, music theory and composition classes, and master classes to elementary, middle, and high school students. Austin Classical Guitar Society (aka Austin Classical Guitar (ACG)) 55,000 Austin, TX To support Classical Guitar Education in the Schools. The project i