National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

Yellow Barn, Inc. (aka Yellow Barn)
$10,000 Putney, VT
To support the Yellow Barn Program and Artist Residencies, a professional development project. During the
annual summer chamber music festival, musicians will participate in rehearsals, coaching sessions, master
classes, and performances with faculty and guest artists selected by Artistic Director Seth Knopp (a founding
member of the Naumburg Award-winning Peabody Trio), such as violinist Daniel Chong, violist Katherine
Murdock, pianist Gilbert Kalish, and cellist Natasha Brofsky, and composers Stephen Coxe, Jorg Widmann, and
Stefano Gervasoni. Yellow Barn Artist Residencies, a retreat program for professional, performing musicians,
furthers the art of musical performance by providing an environment conducive to undistracted study, an
exchange of ideas, and opportunities for performance.
Zeitgeist
$10,000 St. Paul, MN
To support a music festival celebrating the centennial of American composer Lou Harrison's birth. The week-long
festival will feature a diverse range of compositions by the composer, an interactive exhibition of photographs,
writings, articles, and scores from Harrison's creative life, and community engagement events and discussions.
The activities will take place in venues such as Studio Z in St. Paul, Weber Hall at University of Minnesota-Duluth,
as well as Kleinpell Fine Arts Center in River Falls, Wisconsin.
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.