National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

manage the program, and will teach credit workshops, conduct financial education and online marketing
trainings, offer business success coaching for artists, provide interested and qualified artists with financing
through their Artist Builder Microloan and Credit Builder Loan products, and offer matched savings accounts,
known as Individual Development Accounts or IDAs, to artists to help them learn to save and build assets.
Emerging and mid-career Lakota artists also will be able to partake in art classes to further hone their artistic
skills.
Friends of A Studio in the Woods (aka A Studio in the Woods)
$50,000 New Orleans, LA
To support the Endless Orchard project, in partnership with the Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable
Engagement and Development. In both the Lower Ninth Ward and the Treme/Lafitte neighborhoods of New
Orleans, art collaboration Fallen Fruit will work with individuals and community groups to plant fruit trees in
public spaces and in front of homes and businesses. Endless Orchard-with living fruit trees, public space, and
collective participation-is part of a large-scale, public artwork to transform cities across the country. As part of
the project in New Orleans, Fallen Fruit will create Urban Fruit Trails, localized networks of fruit trees that will
continue to provide a needed resource-food-to the public in perpetuity. The artists will create accessible, online
maps of these Urban Fruit Trails to serve as a resource for the public to explore the city, connect with neighbors,
and feed themselves. This action will use the city landscape to creatively ignite public conversations around food
access, community development, and public space. The multi-platform project will take place through a series of
artist residencies and will include partnerships with a number of local non-arts and arts organizations.
GALA Inc., Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos (aka GALA Hispanic Theatre)
$22,500 Washington, DC
To support the creation of a new work about domestic violence in partnership with Mary's Center for Maternal
and Child Care, with touring performances and related activities. Theater artist Elia Arce will conduct interviews
with survivors of abuse who have volunteered to participate in the program. Arce will work with the participants
to create and perform in a new theatrical work based on the collected stories. Personal details will be altered to
ensure anonymity for the safety and security of the survivors. Caseworkers from the Domestic Violence Program
support groups at Mary's Center will be available throughout the duration of the project to facilitate and address
any counseling issues that may arise during the interview or rehearsal process. After premiering at GALA, the
project will then tour to clinics, counseling centers, and shelters in the DC metro area. Post-performance
discussions with project participants, Arce, and trained caseworkers from Mary's Center and other counseling
facilities will be offered. Counseling resources and contact information will be available to audiences in the
theater lobby before and after each performance.
Hattiloo Theatre
$40,000 Memphis, TN
To support the Black Box Performing Arts Festival, in partnership with the National Civil Rights Museum. Hattiloo
Theatre and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art will forge a new partnership with non-arts organizations, the
National Civil Rights Museum, Overton Park Conservancy, and Rhodes College to showcase the works of
emerging Black and Latino artists. In a multi-day event, staged at several venues across Memphis, the festival's
theme of "justice" will be exemplified through theater, dance, voice, and film, and presented through a Black
arts lens. Multiple arts groups from various regions will participate. Embedded within the festival will be a
conference where participants from Historically Black Colleges and Universities will attend a panel discussion on
the national state of Black theater and an arts career/internship expo. Participants also will engage in a Page to
Stage workshop to create an original short play that will be performed at Rhodes College to conclude the
festival.
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.