National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

To support a series of multidisciplinary performances and related activities. A mixed-genre performance,
"Invisible: Imprints of Racism," will combine modern and street dancers with professional poets to examine
issues of race in urban America. Teenagers from high poverty neighborhoods in Baltimore, Boston, New York
City, and Providence will participate in one- to two-week workshops with the company. They will explore their
own experiences with race and shape them into stories using dance and spoken-word.
Apollo Theater Foundation (aka Apollo Theater)
$30,000 New York, NY
To support the Women of the World Festival and related activities. A partnership with London's Southbank
Centre, the festival will be a multi-day event exploring issues facing women around the world. Events will
include concerts, comedy shows, a town hall focused on girls, and panel discussions. The highlight of the festival
will be a concert honoring artist/activist and 2003 NEA Jazz Master Abbey Lincoln (1930-2010). The tribute
concert will feature female jazz artists such as Esperanza Spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington, as well as 2017 NEA
Jazz Master Dee Bridgewater.
Artown
$25,000 Reno, NV
To support the Artown festival. More than 50 artists and performers will be presented at Artown, a free
multidisciplinary arts festival in Reno, Nevada.
Arts Are Essential, Inc.
$10,000 Acton, MA
To support animation components for a performance project and related activities. Arts Are Essential will
commission artist Kseniya Simonova to add sand animation and the duo of Jan Koester and Sonja Rohleder to
add digital shadow puppetry to "Tales from the Forgotten Kingdom." Through the use of traditional songs and
stories, sung in the endangered language Ladino, the multidisciplinary theater piece will bring attention to
Sephardic communities from the Balkans and Mediterranean decimated in World War II.
Arts for Art, Inc. (aka AFA)
$20,000 New York, NY
To support the Vision Festival, a jazz and multidisciplinary arts festival, and related activities. The week-long
festival will include dance, spoken-word, music, and visual arts, with an emphasis on jazz. Most of the artists
who will perform work within the improvisational free jazz aesthetic. Proposed artists include: Yoshiko Chuma,
Ravi Coltrane, Milford Graves, Mary Halvorson, Joe McPhee, Nicole Mitchell, Joe Morris, William Parker, Mike
Reed, Tomeka Reid, Matthew Shipp, Jen Shyu, and Steve Swell.
Artspace Projects, Inc. (aka Artspace)
$30,000 Minneapolis, MN
To support Art Bridge. The program uses multimedia technology to facilitate artistic collaboration, arts
education, and public performance. In this pilot program, the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Juneau and the
Pregones Theater/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City will create a single artistic product through
the use of multimedia technology. A performance in real-time will be hosted at each organization and available
online to artists working in Artspace properties across the country.
AS220
$10,000 Providence, RI
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.