National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

Education Network (KCAAEN), and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA). Additional
collaborators will include the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE), the State Education
Agencies Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE), the State Arts Action Network (SAAN), the United States Urban
Arts Federation (USUAF, as well as state chapters of each of the discipline-specific national associations and
other state-level organizations.
BalletRox, Inc. (aka BalletRox)
$20,000 Jamaica Plain, MA
To support BalletRox Dance! Community Dance Program. Students of all ages will participate in after-school
dance training and leadership development. Professional dancers will provide instruction in ballet, tap, modern,
hip-hop, and Caribbean soca. Students also will study choreography and dance history and showcase their
original work in public performances several times a year. Subsidized tickets are provided for students and
families to attend professional performances in Boston. Participants will take a master class with a performer
from a touring Broadway show and then attend this production. Teenage participants may serve on the Youth
Council where they will serve as teaching assistants and meet regularly to work on choreography, props, sets,
costumes, and event logistics.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc. (aka Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO))
$40,000 Baltimore, MD
To support the OrchKids program, a music and mentorship program for students in Baltimore City public
schools. Serving as a national model for the U.S. El Sistema movement, a movement that emphasizes social
change through the arts, professional musicians provide in-school and after-school music training to students
attending Title I schools in Baltimore. OrchKids combines music instruction and social services to help students
acquire positive behaviors such as perseverance, cooperation, and personal responsibility. The program is
delivered at no cost to participants, and includes musicianship classes, after-school choir and instrumental music
instruction, summer programming, and opportunities for the students to perform for audiences around the city.
Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts & Technology (aka BAYCAT)
$10,000 San Francisco, CA
To support the BAYCAT Youth Powered Media Program. Students will develop skills such as artistic expression,
critical thinking, and effective communication, while receiving comprehensive instruction in digital media arts
technology. As youth media producers, students will collaborate to create programming for the award-winning,
youth-created TV show, "Zoom In.".
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (aka Restoration)
$25,000 Brooklyn, NY
To support Youth Arts Academy Dance Project. Pre-school through high school-age youth will study ballet,
contemporary, Horton technique, tap, and African dance year round and during a summer intensive. Taught by
professional dancers, the goals of the pre-professional dance program are to expose youth to various genres of
dance, improve their proficiency, provide experiences with professional dancers in residence, and build
students' confidence through performance opportunities for diverse audiences.
Berea College
$30,000 Berea, KY
To support Berea College Promise Neighborhood's early childhood professional development in arts integration.
Experienced artists and early childhood specialists will work with children in pre-school centers, their parents in
home visits, and provide professional development to classroom teachers to improve school readiness. Closing
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.