National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc. (aka Dieu Donne)
$25,000 New York, NY
To support residency and exhibition opportunities for artists in the hand papermaking tradition. Dieu Donne will
offer residencies to mid-career and emerging artists through the Lab Grant and the Workspace Residency
programs, providing each artist with stipends, one-on-one collaboration with master papermakers, and an
exhibition. Participating artists experiment in a medium that is outside of their traditional practice and receive
training on specialized equipment.
Disjecta Contemporary Art Center (aka Disjecta)
$20,000 Portland, OR
To support the Curator-in-Residence program. Selected from a national open call, the curator-in-residence will
organize a series of installation-based exhibitions for a year. Project activities such as lectures, performances,
film screenings, and music events also will take place alongside the exhibitions.
Elsewhere, Inc (aka Elsewhere)
$40,000 Greensboro, NC
To support a site-specific residency and fellowship program for Southern artists. A committee of arts
professionals will nominate artists to receive travel funds, room and board, and a stipend. The residency will
include access to Elsewhere's collection of vintage objects, production support for experimental new works,
professional development tools, project publicity, video documentation, and access to Elsewhere's global artist
network. Additional artists will be selected to produce a public art project in downtown Greensboro.
Ferris State University (aka Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts of KCAD)
$25,000 Big Rapids, MI
To support exhibition and documentation of work by contemporary African-American artists at the Urban
Institute for Contemporary Arts of KCAD. Here + Now will comprise solo exhibitions, performances, and
community events with emerging or mid-career African-American visual artists, spoken-word artists, poets, and
writers. Emerging artist Nakeya Brown's work will explore the relationships between image, gender, and race,
while artist Mario Moore will use painting and other media to examine the social and political context of Black
male identity in the United States today. Rashida Bumbray will present a new performance piece and several
artists, scholars, poets, and writers also will participate in public programs, such as Taylor Aldridge, Jessica Lynn,
Kyd Kane, and Janice Bond, among others.
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. (aka Franklin Furnace)
$25,000 Brooklyn, NY
To support a series of arts education workshops. Workshops led by teaching artists will introduce elementary
school teachers to the concept of "peripheral thinking" as defined by the contemporary South African artist
William Kentridge. The concept encourages children to combine contextual data from all five of their senses
when learning, making the absorption of information related to science, history, and math more interactive and
memorable. The project will include one planning session with administrators, classroom teachers and teaching
artists, lesson planning with individual teachers, and ongoing assessment.
Friends of the High Line
$40,000 New York, NY
To support "Mutations," a series of public art installations for the High Line Park in New York City. As part of the
series, artists will be selected to create new work using a broad variety of media, from traditional sculptural
media to sound installation and performance. The artworks, installed for one year, will explore the theme of the
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.