National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works
Number of Grants: 90 Total Dollar Amount: $2,110,000
A Blade of Grass Fund (aka A Blade of Grass)
$25,000 New York, NY
To support a residency for socially engaged artists and related activities. As many as nine artists will receive a
stipend, training, and mentoring to develop socially engaged art work. The artists and outside partners will
produce ethnographic-style evaluations, short documentary films, public programs, and dynamic web content
for practitioners and general audiences.
Aaron Davis Hall, Inc. (aka Harlem Stage)
$25,000 New York, NY
To support WaterWorks, "E-Moves," and Harlem Stride. The Harlem Stage's residency and commissioning
program WaterWorks will feature the premiere of Imani Uzuri's "Hush Arbor," an opera inspired by slave
rebellions. WaterWorks also will feature The Stretch Music Festival, curated by jazz trumpeter Christian Scott.
"E-Moves," a dance performance, will be curated by alumni such as Bill T. Jones and Kyle Abraham. Harlem
Stride will celebrate Thelonious Monk's 100th birthday with a new composition in his honor by musician Igmar
Thomas.
Americas Society, Inc. (aka Americas Society)
$25,000 New York, NY
To support the multidisciplinary exhibition "Graphic Design and the Avant-Garde, 1944-1976" and related
activities. In addition to the art exhibition, a concert will showcase avant-garde music composed by fellows of
the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales in Buenos Aires, Argentina. New pieces commissioned
by Americas Society and performed by members of the International Contemporary Society also will be
presented at the concert. A separate event will feature a conversation with musicologist Laura Novoa, one of the
leading experts on Latin American music.
Anchorage Concert Association, Inc. (aka ACA)
$20,000 Anchorage, AK
To support a multidisciplinary presenting series and related activities. Anchorage Concert Association will work
with community partners to arrange workshops, residencies, house concerts, and other outreach activities.
Participating artists will include Versa-Style Dance Company members, professional storytellers of The Moth,
and musicians from the Portland Cello Project.
Ann Arbor Summer Festival (aka Ann Arbor Summer Festival)
$10,000 Ann Arbor, MI
To support the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and related activities. Multidisciplinary performances and residencies
will explore physical performance techniques, interactive street and contemporary circus arts, environmental
theater, site-specific works, outdoor spectacles, and audience participatory artworks. Australia's Strange Fruit
will debut "Ringing the Changes," a work that will include dancers swaying on 30-foot high poles while ringing
chiming bells atop separate poles, along with musicians on the ground playing a combination of hand bells,
glockenspiel, sleigh bells, and Brazilian "surdo" drums.
Anna Myer and Dancers, Inc. (aka Anna Myer and Dancers)
$25,000 Cambridge, MA
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.