National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

Elmhurst Art Museum (aka EAM)
$40,000 Elmhurst, IL
To support the exhibition "Mies in Chicago." The new permanent exhibition will examine the work of architect
Mies van der Rohe, who emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1937 and was a leading proponent of
modern architecture.This is the first permanent exhibition to focus on van der Rohe's body of work in the United
States-24 projects, 18 of which are in the Chicago area. The exhibition also will include scale models,
photographs, archival documents, photographs, and the museum-owned McCormick House, which he designed
in 1952.
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. (aka Enterprise)
$50,000 Columbia, MD
To support National Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute (AHDLI). The program brings together
developers, design professionals, community members, and city agencies to address urgent community
development needs in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. AHDLI will include one national and several
regional events to broaden the number of participating communities, and will offer activities such as workshops
to critique schematic plans for local housing developers, design exercises around a particular theme, and group
discussions about specific large development projects with housing development project partners. AHDLI is
modeled after the NEA's program, the Mayors' Institute on City Design.
Epicenter
$20,000 Green River, UT
To support the Frontier Fellowship program. A rural arts and design residency program, fellows live and work
with Epicenter in Green River, Utah. Resident fellows serve the community through artists' and designers'
projects, exhibits, publications, and other products and events that are informed by the surrounding desert
landscape and the community itself. Utilizing materials from the John Wesley Powell Research Center and
Archives in Green River, the fellows will focus on collecting, cataloging, and circulating oral histories, local
narratives and folklore, and place-specific stories about Green River.
Friends of + POOL (aka POOL)
$30,000 New York, NY
To support Light + POOL. The project is a public art installation and precursor to the installation of + POOL, a
water filtering, floating swimming pool that cleans natural water systems and is currently being designed for
installation in New York City. Installed within the footprint of the future site for + POOL, the installation will trace
the exact size, 200 feet x 200 feet, and "plus" shape of the future pool, with LED-illuminated buoys staggered
every four feet that illuminate and change in color based on the quality of the water in real time.
Genspace NYC, Inc. (aka Genspace)
$33,000 Brooklyn, NY
To support the Biodesign Challenge. The design competition and summit invites students from university art and
design programs around the United States to envision how to use biotechnology in areas such as energy,
materials, and medicine. The challenge concludes with the Biodesign Summit, where top teams from each
school showcase their ideas to an audience of designers, scientists, artists, industrial partners, and "Popular
Science" magazine staff. Designs also will be featured at events (including Biofabricate 2017), partnering
museums (including the Museum of Modern Art), galleries, and on an ongoing Popular Science blog.
Hester Street Collaborative Inc. (aka HSC)
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.