National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

Design
Number of Grants: 54 Total Dollar Amount: $1,620,000
Alpha Workshops, Inc. (aka The Alpha Workshops)
$30,000 New York, NY
To support a decorative arts training program. With a focus primarily on HIV-positive individuals from lowincome
communities, the program includes an introductory course offered on a quarterly basis and an advanced
course offered twice a year. Through the courses, qualified instructors teach marketable decorative arts
techniques such as gilding, faux finishes, stamping, and stenciling. Students also learn about Venetian plaster,
mural painting, and mold-making/casting, and develop job skills that qualify them for employment in Alpha's
studio or in other positions in the field once they graduate from the program.
American Institute of Graphic Arts (aka AIGA)
$40,000 New York, NY
To support the AIGA Medalists Project. AIGA will collect, digitize, and make the work of its end-of-career
medalists available online via the AIGA Design Archive. The archive is intended to be a dynamic knowledge
platform that uses visual storytelling to share the legacy of designers, both historical and contemporary. AIGA
medals have been awarded since 1920 to notable designers who have set standards of design excellence during
their lifetime or have made individual contributions to innovation within the practice of design in the United
States.
Anchorage Museum Association (aka Anchorage Museum)
$25,000 Anchorage, AK
To support Studio 61. Through a series of public programs, large-scale environmental graphics in public spaces, a
line of designed products, and numerous artist exchanges, conversations, and commissions, the museum seeks
to articulate the distinct meaning, value, and character of place at a time of environmental change. "61" refers
to the latitude of Anchorage and other Northern cities such as Reykjavik, Helsinki, and Oslo, that also are being
studied by scientists and others to understand the impacts of climate change. Through the project, artists and
designers in these northern climates will share their vision of the environmental and cultural changes they
witness due to climate change.
Architectural League of New York
$40,000 New York, NY
To support Diversified Delivery, the creation of new distribution channels for editorial output. The Architectural
League will develop and deploy new content delivery formats, including digital magazines, printed chapbooks,
video series, and podcasts, to diversify the ways in which audiences around the country access their
programming to learn about design, architecture, and citymaking. Diversified Delivery seeks to find present
platforms that will appeal to a new, general audience, perhaps unfamiliar with the jargon and internal debates
of design, yet still keenly interested in its topics.
Art Center College of Design
$30,000 Pasadena, CA
To support the Design Demonstration Studio: Inspiring Tomorrow's Car Designers. Art Center and the Petersen
Automotive Museum will partner on a design demonstration studio at the Petersen's newly redesigned facility in
Los Angeles. Transportation design students from ArtCenter will create sketches, digital renderings, 3D models
in the studio and serve as public docents to explain automotive design to family audiences of all ages. The
project is designed to raise awareness of industrial design career paths among diverse K-12 students.
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.