National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

Visual Arts
Number of Grants: 68 Total Dollar Amount: $1,823,000
Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Inc. (aka Scholastic Art & Writing Awards)
$25,000 New York, NY
To support Scholastic Art & Writing Award's exhibition "ART.WRITE.NOW," and related programming. Featuring
works of art and writing by students, the exhibition will be complemented by artist talks, educational programs,
workshops, and gatherings for the program's alumni. A printed catalogue will be produced and a digital gallery
of the artwork will be hosted online. The exhibition will debut at Parsons New School of Design and at Pratt
Manhattan Gallery. Many of the works are expected to tour to a variety of venues across the United States.
American Academy in Rome
$50,000 New York, NY
To support a residency for visual artists to create, interpret, and present new work. The residency will provide an
opportunity for as many as four American artists to spend a year in Rome in the historic setting on the
Janiculum, one of the highest hills in Rome. Artists will receive a stipend, studio space, housing, and meals.
Archie Bray Foundation (aka Archie Bray Foundation (the Bray))
$20,000 Helena, MT
To support the Visiting Artist Program. During the residencies, ceramic artists will receive studio space, housing,
artist fees, transportation, and full access to the Bray's extensive firing facilities and its clay manufacturing and
distribution business. In addition to these visiting artists, as many as 12 ceramists from the artist collective
Objective Clay will spend a month working in the Summer Studio facility and will lead a workshop and panel
discussion. Visiting artists under consideration include Michael Connelly, Alleghany Meadows, Arthur Gonzalez,
Molly Hatch, Kathy King, and Kristen Morgin. These artists will participate in public lectures and workshops
culminating in an exhibition of representative work.
Armory Center for the Arts
$35,000 Pasadena, CA
To support the photography and multimedia exhibitions "Found in Translation" and "Live in Context." Public
programming and an open access digital archive will complement these exhibitions, which will examine the
surge in transnationalism and interconnectedness between Canada, the United States, and Mexico in the 1990s.
Found in Translation will examine the meaning of communication between cultures through a myriad of forms.
Participating artists will include Julie Lequin, Guzman, Naotaka Hiro, Sid Duenas, Jota Izquierto, and Clarissa
Tossin. "Live in Context" will address the contradictions of the time as well as the socioeconomic and political
climate. Among the artists to be exhibited are Crater Invertido, Andres Garay, Sarah Minter, Grupo Proceso, and
Antonio Turok.
Art Council Inc. (aka Artadia)
$20,000 Brooklyn, NY
To support Artadia's Art & Dialogue, a professional development series for artists and curators. Selected artists
will receive studio visits and feedback from a guest curator who works outside of the immediate community.
Each curator will present a series of public programs hosted by local cultural partners, taking place in the
curator's home city as well as in the artist's community. Programming may include discussions, artist interviews,
or presentations about an emerging artist's work, disseminated through Artadia's website. Host cities include
Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.