National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

that will travel to Baltimore-area prisons, juvenile detention facilities, homeless shelters, and assisted living
facilities free-of-charge for these partner organizations and their populations. The CS Mobile Unit will hire
professional actors, directors, and designers for each production tour. Each tour will include the performance of
a play. After the show, audiences will have dialogue with the artists and each other about the play's themes and
issues that are relevant to their lives. The JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health will provide measurement and
assessment tools to gauge the program's success and offer options for improvement.
Cloud Artscience Foundation (aka Le Laboratoire Cambridge)
$90,000 Cambridge, MA
To support the presentation of "15 Points," a sculptural, robotic, point-light installation, and related activities,
that will explore the human-machine interface, created by artist collective rAndom International and presented
in partnership with Harvard The installation will be accompanied by a series of activities that will engage the
public in both artistic and scientific content, such as a lecture series featuring artists and experts in artificial
intelligence, the human-machine interface, evolution, and robotics. The installation will be an experiment in the
radical abstraction of the human form and movement, drawing inspiration from Picasso's "Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon." It will experiment with the minimal amount of information necessary for a form to be recognized as
human as well as the fundamental impact created by subtle changes within that information as the form fails to
attain a lifelike appearance.
Diavolo Dance Theatre (aka DIAVOLO | Architecture in Motion)
$45,000 Los Angeles, CA
To support The Luminoir Project in partnership with the Institute for Creativity, the Arts, and Technology at
Virginia Tech. Project activities will include the fabrication and testing of advanced technologies that will
enhance the creation of Diavolo's newest dance work, "Luminoir," by Artistic Director Jacques Heim.
Researchers from the departments of Architecture and Urban Design, Computer Science, and Electrical
Engineering will develop innovations such as movement-based sensors, wearable electronic devices, and
electronic textiles for the stage design as well as a customized smartphone application for increased audience
engagement.
Exploratorium
$100,000 San Francisco, CA
To support Artistic Practice towards Urban Resilience (APUR), in partnership with the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. APUR will immerse artists in a multi-scale
investigation of transportation systems, community, and governance related to the impacts of climate change in
the San Francisco Bay Area. In conjunction with the Resilience of Infrastructure as Seas Rise (RISeR) project-a
consortium of academic institutions, research labs, nonprofits, and government entities-APUR will explore how
artists approach the problem of sea level rise and its impact on city infrastructure, as well as how artistic
conceptualization of climate data can inform, inspire, and empower communities at risk. The project will include
a colloquium connecting professional artists directly with scientists to investigate how artistic approaches can
further community engagement and learning. Through a collaborative residency, selected artists will develop
prototypes of platforms and data presentations to support a public education and resiliency campaign.
First Peoples Fund
$100,000 Rapid City, SD
To support the Rolling Rez Arts mobile unit, in partnership with The Lakota Fund. The Rolling Rez Arts mobile
unit will provide art classes, professional arts business and entrepreneurship training, asset building, financial
education, and mobile banking to artists on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The Lakota Fund will co-
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.