National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

2015, the program will select exceptional artists working with timely documentary practices through an open
call. The resulting exhibition will feature newly commissioned work that explores fact, truth and image making.
The exhibition catalogue will feature illustrations and a scholarly essay by the curator. Accompanying public
programs will be organized in collaboration with selected partners.
Jackson Hole Public Art
$20,000 Jackson, WY
To support the commission of a series of public art works in Astoria Hot Springs Park. The park, part of a larger
open space effort by the Trust for Public Land, has been closed to the community since 1999. Selected artists
will receive a stipend to design, fabricate, and install work that reflects the uniqueness of the hot springs, an
economically important natural resource. The project will include a series of placemaking activities conducted by
local artists and high school students in an effort to fully engage the community in the park revitalization.
Kansas State University
$20,000 Manhattan, KS
To support a collaborative project to transform the art of printmaking through chemical innovation. This
endeavor will transfer safer, sustainable technology from the electronics and biotech industries into the realm of
fine art printmaking. A team of artists and scientists at the university will research and develop electrochemical
etching processes and green bio-solvents, empowering artists to create prints in a more effective and controlled
manner. Results will be tested and utilized by a consortium of invited artists, master printers, and educators who
will create a portfolio of prints for both a traveling exhibition and the education of printmakers.
LAXART
$25,000 Los Angeles, CA
To support implementation of "The Occasional," a multi-venue citywide exhibition and international artist
residency program. The exhibition will include newly commissioned work. Artists will consider Los Angeles as a
city in flux, and will be encouraged to work outside the confines of museum or gallery spaces, creating projects
that activate the city. The public will be engaged through a series of salons, workshops, discussions, film
screenings, and performances.
Laundromat Project, Inc. (aka The Laundromat Project)
$40,000 New York, NY
To support artists' residencies and arts education programming at neighborhood laundromats. Artists will
develop and mount site-specific, socially relevant art projects in local coin-op laundries to engage neighbors and
patrons in the creative process. Selected through an open call, artists will participate in a six-month long
professional development training series designed to develop, deepen, and put to action a community-engaged
artistic practice. The project will include development of community-responsive educational programming
relevant to each neighborhood and each project.
Light Work Visual Studies, Inc. (aka Light Work)
$40,000 Syracuse, NY
To support a residency program for artists, and publication of their work in "Contact Sheet-The Light Work
Annual." Emerging, local, and international artists working in photography or electronic media will be invited for
month-long residencies that include facility and equipment access, housing, a stipend, publication of their work,
and inclusion of their work on Light Work's online image database. Contact Sheet-The Light Work Annual is
distributed to select curators, directors, educators, critics, publishers, and galleries worldwide.
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.