National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

The project will serve teens and young adults attending alternative schools, General Equivalency Degree (GED)
classes, and after-school programs in underserved Chicago neighborhoods.
MINDPOP
$30,000 Austin, TX
To support Emerging Teaching Artists, a professional development project. Teaching artists will learn effective
strategies for teaching art in schools and community settings, followed by mentoring with a master teacher,
classroom experience, and job placement. Teaching artists who complete the training are invited to attend
ongoing advanced professional development program, FLASHDRIVE and network with organizations, funders,
and other working artists and teaching artists.
MacPhail Center for Music (aka N/A)
$10,000 Minneapolis, MN
To support the ECM (Early Childhood Music) Online program. Professional teaching artists will use video
conferencing to deliver music instruction to students in early childhood classes in rural Minnesota communities
and small cities. A MacPhail teaching artist will make one in-person visit to each classroom and the program
includes training teachers to integrate music into their classroom teaching. Online School Partnerships will
provide access to specialized music instruction that is otherwise not available to towns and cities outside major
metropolitan areas and enhance existing public school music programs.
Manhattan School of Music
$20,000 New York, NY
To support Camp MSM, a residential vocal and instrumental music summer camp. Set on the Manhattan School
of Music conservatory campus in New York City, and offering a residential option, the Camp provides intensive
instruction in musical theater and instrumental music to middle school and high school students. Each student
receives a private lesson each week in their primary instrument and also participates in ensembles such as flute
choir, guitar ensemble, and Latin jazz band. Students choose from elective classes such as improvisation,
conducting, audition techniques, chamber music, songwriting, composition, and advanced music history.
Instrumental majors participate in both large and small ensembles and vocal majors prepare two fully staged
theatrical productions with costumes and scenery.
Marwen Foundation, Inc. (aka Marwen)
$20,000 Chicago, IL
To support the Marwen Studio, a free program which offers out-of-school visual arts courses. Practicing artists
design and teach sequential, hands-on art-making courses in a range of disciplines, including visual arts, design
arts, media arts, and mixed media. Project partners include HIVE Chicago, the University of Chicago, and the
Chicago Architecture Foundation.
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
$10,000 Boston, MA
To support the Summer Studios Youth Program, a visual arts immersion experience for high school students.
Taught by local artists and art educators, students will have a foundation in both 2D and 3D art-making.
Students also will have the option to participate in an elective studio from the following areas: painting from
observation, graphic design, fashion design, photography, jewelry and metalsmithing, and illustration. Students
will develop critical thinking skills through the study of art history and gallery visits.
Matrix Theatre Company (aka Matrix Theatre Company)
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.