National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

Art Works
Total Number of Grants: 970 Total Dollar Amount: $25,981,000
Artist Communities
Number of Grants: 39 Total Dollar Amount: $755,000
18th Street Arts Complex (aka 18th Street Arts Center)
$10,000 Santa Monica, CA
To support the Artist Lab Residency Program. Original artworks created by resident multidisciplinary artists
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and Sherin Guirguis will be on view to the public alongside narratives about the artists'
creative process. The Lab Residency Program supports artists with curatorial direction, production, marketing,
and outreach. Both the resident artists and visiting curator will be provided with living stipends.
3Arts, Inc (aka 3Arts)
$15,000 Chicago, IL
To support artist residencies for artists with disabilities. The multi-month residencies will provide resources for
artists with disabilities to create new work. Through a partnership with the University of Illinois at Chicago,
artists also will have opportunities to teach, lead workshops, mentor graduate students, collaborate with faculty,
present public lectures, or engage with the campus and Chicago community in other ways. While the project's
primary focus is to assist artists with disabilities, the residencies also will focus on raising awareness regarding
equity, accessibility, and inclusion.
Alliance of Artists Communities
$35,000 Providence, RI
To support professional development within the field of artist communities. Emerging Leader Fellows is a yearlong
professional development program for early-career leaders in the artist communities field. Board Track is a
one-day intensive during the annual conference designed to teach staff and board members best practices. Peer
Cohorts is a year-round networking effort to address specific management concerns for areas of interest such as
arts and the environment, performing arts, and artist residencies abroad.
Anderson Ranch Arts Foundation (aka Anderson Ranch Arts Center)
$10,000 Snowmass Village, CO
To support artist residencies programs and related activities. Fully funded residencies will be provided for as
many as 28 emerging or established artists. The residencies will be offered twice a year and encourage artists to
take risks, pursue new projects and ideas, or develop current projects.
Art Omi, Inc. (aka Omi International Arts Center)
$10,000 Ghent, NY
To support American artists as part of an international artists residency program and related activities. Omi
International Arts Center will host more than 100 artists (at least one-quarter of whom will be U.S. citizens) in
the fields of visual arts, writing, music, dance, and architecture. Each resident will receive room and board,
studio space, and time to produce new works, as well as the opportunity to engage with a diverse community of
international artists.
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.