National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

$40,000 New York, NY
To support Rockaway Ready. Hester Street staff and community partner organizations will engage local residents
in the creation of a local community health plan that addresses critical healthcare access problems and longterm
equity issues. Rockaway Ready will focus its efforts on local low-income public housing residents in Arverne
and Edgemere, two high-need neighborhoods heavily impacted by Hurricane Sandy in New York City's borough
of Queens.
Historic Kansas City Foundation
$20,000 Kansas City, MO
To support the creation and implementation of design guidelines for the 18th and Vine Historic District. National
recognized for its jazz history, the district is undergoing a wave of new development which threatens its historic
character. Design guidelines adopted by the city for both rehabilitation and new construction will help guide
development that will positively enhance the built environment of the district.
Historic Milwaukee, Inc.
$20,000 Milwaukee, WI
To support Doors Open Milwaukee 2017. The festival offers behind-the-scenes tours of more than 150 buildings
throughout Milwaukee, as well as an array of keynote lectures and in-depth tours. It is Milwaukee's only cultural
and design event to specifically celebrate the rich artistic and architectural heritage of Milwaukee and its
surrounding neighborhoods and cities. Doors Open is a free event, making it accessible to families, seniors, and
anyone on a fixed or low income.
Historic Saranac Lake
$20,000 Saranac Lake, NY
To support design and planning for the Traveling Cure Porch. The first phase of the project includes the design of
a sturdy, low-cost, mobile space to be used for various arts and culture events and planning for future
programming of the space. It draws upon the American cultural tradition of the porch as a public and private
community space and the specific local context of the cure porch in Saranac Lake, where tens of thousands of
people visited in the 19th-century for the "fresh air cure" for tuberculosis. Historic Saranac Lake endeavors to
strengthen community ties by creating an intimate venue that reflects local design heritage and offers a space
where residents and tourists meet to exchange ideas and experience the arts.
Houston Architecture Foundation (aka Architecture Center Houston Foundation)
$25,000 Houston, TX
To support the Architecture Center Houston (ArCH) Design Competition. The competition to design exhibition
and meeting spaces within the historic Topek Building and Bayou Lofts in downtown Houston will be open to
regional architects as well as teams of architecture school students paired with professionals. The new center
for architecture, which will be home to the Houston chapter of the American Institute of Architects and Houston
Architecture Foundation, will benefit community partners who work in architecture and design fields as well as
other like-minded organizations and nonprofits and the broader arts and design community.
Island Press-Center for Resource Economics (aka Island Press)
$20,000 Washington, DC
To support the publication of "Dignifying Design." Published by Island Press and written by architect John Cary,
who helped to popularize the public interest design movement, this book will show how thoughtful design can
influence the respect we give to others and ourselves. Diverse case studies will examine design and architecture
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.