National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

$40,000 Minneapolis, MN
To support Design Futures Public Interest Design Student Leadership Forum 2017. The project is a forum to
introduce future design leaders to current leaders in the Public Interest Design (PID) field. At each forum,
students participate in a series of workshops that allow them to apply the skills they are learning in real time,
and visit local examples of PID to see how these projects manifest in communities. Design Futures is part of a
broader effort to support the maturation of the PID field and to respond to the significant demand for related
cross-disciplinary training.
Santa Fe Art Institute (aka SFAI)
$30,000 Santa Fe, NM
To support SFAI Design Workshop. Taking place in Santa Fe and at Santo Domingo Pueblo, this college
preparatory summer program introduces high school students (primarily from underserved communities) to the
practice of designing for social good through art, architecture, design, and community engagement. Students
spend time in the design studio and explore social and cultural issues related to the built environment through
different case studies that address a specific community problem. Students also receive mentoring and
professional development during the workshop and throughout the following academic year.
St. John Community Foundation, Inc.
$20,000 St. John, VI
To support the design of Foundation Park. Through a public request for proposals, designers and artists will be
engaged to design the park's entrance features, interpretive signage, seating areas, and commissioned artwork.
The park is being designed to honor the 2017 Centennial celebration of the transfer of the Virgin Islands to the
United States, and will honor the five distinct cultures that have influenced the island's development.
Storefront for Community Design (aka Storefront)
$30,000 Richmond, VA
To support Monument Avenue: General Demotion/General Devotion. This national design competition, held by
Storefront for Community Design and The Middle of Broad Studio, will seek submissions reconsidering
Richmond's Monument Avenue. The goal of the competition is to promote constructive dialogue, racial healing,
and community education as it re-examines Richmond's confederate monuments, and to generate a
communitywide discussion about the role of design in creating a socially just environment. A concurrent local
competition will provide youth with an opportunity to design speculative monuments.
Tiny WPA
$20,000 Philadelphia, PA
To support The Building Hero Project. Project staff provide youth and adults from diverse social and economic
backgrounds with innovative, weekly year-round training in design, collaboration, leadership, fabrication, and
entrepreneurship. The training is action-oriented and product-driven, addressing a particular need or problem
with a specific designed solution (i.e., the need for a place to sit down results in a bench). The project connects
and empowers its multigenerational participants to be catalysts, builders, and change agents in their
communities throughout Philadelphia.
Toledo Museum of Art (aka TMA)
$40,000 Toledo, OH
To support the exhibition "Chandeliers - Innovation Illuminated." The exhibition will explore the development of
the chandelier as a central, suspended light source built for interiors and illustrate the cultural context and
technology of chandeliers from antiquity to today, as well as its future role in environmentally responsible
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.