National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

Art in General, Inc. (aka Art in General)
$40,000 Brooklyn, NY
To support the New Commissions Program. The program will provide support for local and international artists
to create new work. Selected artists will receive an artist fee, production budget, curatorial support, and access
to equipment and technology culminating in an exhibition. Free public programming and online education
initiatives will be prepared in conjunction with each artist's exhibition.
Artists Alliance, Inc. (aka AAI)
$25,000 New York, NY
To support an exhibition program. Project activity will take place at the Cuchifritos Gallery in the Essex Street
Market on New York's Lower East Side. Cuchifritos' curatorial program will provide exhibition opportunities for
emerging and underrepresented artists, while supporting the independent voices of curators seeking to address
current concerns in contemporary art and society.
Artpace, Inc. (aka Artpace San Antonio)
$55,000 San Antonio, TX
To support the International Artist-in-Residence program. Selected by guest curators, artists will produce and
exhibit new work during a residency that will provide housing, work space, technical assistance, transportation
costs, and a stipend. Artists will engage with audiences through introductory community gatherings, artists'
talks, exhibitions, adult education programming, and partnerships with San Antonio schools. Additionally, the
guest curators will present free public lectures.
BURNAWAY Inc (aka BURNAWAY)
$20,000 Atlanta, GA
To support efforts to expand "Burnaway" magazine's editorial capacity and geographic reach. The expansion will
help the magazine hire and better compensate more writers and artists to investigate a broad spectrum of
topics to develop a wider readership of artists, curators, arts administrators, collectors, educators, students, and
the public. Burnaway will help defray other costs such as a full-time editor, a part-time editorial and social media
staff, and the maintenance of an online platform.
Bard College
$30,000 Annandale-Hudson, NY
To support the exhibition "The Conditions of Being Art," and an accompanying publication. The exhibition will
highlight and contextualize the groundbreaking work of two New York City galleries in the 1990s-the American
Fine Arts Company and the Pat Hearn Gallery. Featuring works by artists such as Tom Burr, Mark Dion, Andrea
Fraser, Renee Green, Mary Heilmann, Jutta Koether, Cady Noland, and Christian Philipp Muller, the exhibition
will showcase how a new generation of artists employed social and institutional critiques in their work, and how
the traditional notion of an art gallery was challenged, as they were repurposed as concert halls, classrooms,
social hot spots, and sites for social activism. The project will include public programming and production of a
comprehensive catalogue published in collaboration with Dancing Foxes Press and the University of Chicago
Press.
Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc. (On behalf of Longwood Art Gallery)
$20,000 Bronx, NY
To support a series of exhibitions at the Longwood Art Gallery. The exhibitions will be complemented by a
variety of public programs, including live performances, artist and curator talks, panel discussions, films, and
readings. Planned exhibitions include a solo show featuring mixed media artist Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, and two
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.