National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

Focus: HOPE
$10,000 Detroit, MI
To support the Excel Photography Program. Students from underserved communities in Detroit will learn
technical and artistic photographic skills from professional photographers using digital single-lens reflex (DSLR)
cameras. An exhibition of students' work with accompanying artist biographies and statements will be featured
at the Focus: HOPE Gallery throughout the program. The culminating activity for this project will include public
photography installations on abandoned houses in Detroit neighborhoods and a graduation ceremony for
students.
Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus (aka Anima - Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus)
$10,000 Glen Ellyn, IL
To support Song of DuPage II: One Home, Many Languages, a choral music education project for students in the
metropolitan Chicago area. In 2006, Anima produced its first Song of DuPage project, exploring the history of
DuPage County from Native American roots through the European cultures. The growing diverse populations in
the area inspired an expansion of the earlier project into Song of DuPage II. Anima will partner with the Indian
dance company Meher, School District 33, the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Program based at Westmont Junior
High School, and other partners to actively engage children to build connections among the largest immigrant
cultures in DuPage through music. Composer David Brunner will be commissioned to create a work that
students from Anima's ensembles and other student choirs will learn and perform in a culminating concert in
2018.
Global Action Project, Inc. (aka Global Action Project (G.A.P.))
$20,000 New York, NY
To support the Urban Voices Media Arts Program. Professional media artists will work with youth from
underserved communities in digital media production to create group and individual media arts projects. The
project will culminate in a public screening of student work for families, friends, and peers to view media and
engage youth in dialogue about their films.
Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival (aka Grand Canyon Music Festival)
$15,000 Grand Canyon, AZ
To support the Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP). Navajo, Hopi and Salt River Pima-
Maricopa Reservation students will study one-on-one with a Native American composer-in-residence, creating
original compositions to be recorded and performed by a professional quartet. NACAP students will participate
in a complete composer experience from inspiration to notation, to performance and recording of their own
works. Students will rehearse directly with professional ensembles and the ensembles will perform the students'
compositions at venues such as the Navajo Nation and Heard Museums and other community centers, as well as
at the Grand Canyon Music Festival.
Groundswell Community Mural Project, Inc. (aka Groundswell)
$45,000 Brooklyn, NY
To support the Summer Leadership Institute. Under the guidance of professional artists, teens from underserved
communities will create large-scale public artworks themed on critical issues in their own neighborhoods. Youth
will learn about public art, artists, and artmaking traditions while engaging in sequential skill-building activities
that build technical skills in composition and artmaking in a variety of media.
Harmony Project (aka Harmony Project)
$25,000 Los Angeles, CA
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.