National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

audiences, the Adopt-A-Teller workshop program will place professional storytellers in public schools, libraries,
community centers, senior citizen centers, churches, theaters, museums, and other public venues throughout
Wichita. Storytellers will perform and engage in outreach activities for the community. Photo and video
documentation are scheduled for selected programs.
Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art
$10,000 Millersburg, PA
To support Shakespeare in the Woods, a residency featuring the Gamut Theatre Group and related
programming. The professional theater group will perform "Romeo and Juliet" as part of the Ned Smith Center
for Nature and Art's Shakespeare in the Woods program. Prior to the performance, the Gamut Theatre Group
will engage youth residing in rural Millersburg, Pennsylvania, in theater education activities including workshops
on acting, voice, improvisation, and writing. Youth participants will perform an original play prior to each
performance of "Romeo and Juliet." Partial and full scholarships will be available for low-income youth.
Neighborhood Music School, Inc.
$10,000 New Haven, CT
To support the Jazz Discovery Program and related activities. Intended to serve primarily low-income, ethnically
diverse audiences, the program will feature saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, who will share his expertise through
workshops, classes, and a culminating headline performance in New Haven, Connecticut. Led by Escoffery and
the Neighborhood Music School faculty members, workshops and demonstrations will cover topics such as jazz
history, the role of jazz in urban and world environments, and instrument fundamentals, among others.
Proposed partners in the project include New Haven Public Schools, Achievement First Charter Schools, and
Music Haven, who will serve as host sites for the community programs. A select number of complimentary
tickets to the concert will be distributed.
New Mexico Literary Arts (aka Alzheimer's Poetry Project)
$10,000 Santa Fe, NM
To support the Alzheimer's Poetry Project, which brings poetry to people living with Alzheimer's disease and
related dementia. Poetry and visual art workshops, conducted in both English and Spanish, will be held in
assisted living centers in rural and urban New Mexico. Guest artist Tom Leech will lead workshops on paper
marbling at partner organizations Art Street, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, and Sierra Vista Assisted Living
Center. Building on the classes with Leech, Alzheimer's Poetry Project teaching artists will hold poetry classes in
which participants will write original poems inspired by the visual arts. The workshops will culminate in an
exhibition of the marbled papers, artwork, and poems at the New Mexico History Museum.
New York Chinese Opera Society Inc. (aka NYCOS)
$10,000 New York, NY
To support a multidisciplinary Chinese Opera festival. The festival will be held at Pace University in Manhattan
and feature international guest artists, local artists, and aspiring youth performers. Outreach activities, intended
to serve Chinese-American communities in New York City, will include a series of workshops and lectures about
Chinese Opera. The project will include performances by proposed Peking Opera artists Xiaoqui Chi and Qiang
Zhu.
Northwestern State University of Louisiana (On behalf of Louisiana Folklife Center)
$10,000 Natchitoches, LA
To support the Natchitoches - NSU Folk Festival and associated outreach activities. The multidisciplinary folk
festival, intended to serve an economically disadvantaged, multicultural region, will be free for youth. 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.