National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

lighting design. The exhibition will display approximately 100 objects, including six prominent chandeliers in the
Toledo Museum of Art collection. The museum was founded in 1901 by glass industrialist Edward Drummond
Libbey.
University of Arkansas Main Campus
$50,000 Fayetteville, AR
To support Water and Wildness: Reimagining the Town Square as a Rain Terrain. The project team will develop a
new type of urban town square that integrates wetlands-based stormwater treatment with urban land uses and
an outdoor performance space. The square's landscape will be designed with a wide range of innovative
stormwater treatment designs that call attention to environmental and ecological concerns. The project is a
partnership between the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, City of Conway/Public Art Board, the
Ecological Design Group, the Pine Street Area Community Development Corporation, and the Lake Conway-Point
Remove Watershed Alliance.
University of Colorado at Boulder
$20,000 Boulder, CO
To support the teaching and inclusion of universal design (UD) into university curricula across the United States.
Building on previous work to create and promote UD curriculum at the University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB),
this project will share, expand, and promote these resources to other post-secondary institutions nationally. UD
is an approach to design that creates products, systems, and environments to be as usable as possible by as
many people as possible regardless of age, ability, or situation. Through partnerships, UCB will create and
disseminate resources, provide training and forums, and expand strategic outreach, to increase the quality and
number of courses addressing UD.
University of Maryland Baltimore County Campus
$30,000 Baltimore, MD
To support the exhibition "A Designed Life: American Textiles, Wallpapers, Containers and Packaging (1951-52)."
The exhibition designers will re-create one historically significant traveling exhibition from the early Cold War
period. The original exhibition, created in 1951-52 by the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service in
collaboration with the U .S. Department of State, was displayed throughout West Germany. The project will
explore the concepts of mid-century American design and modernity through a display of textiles by product
designers, many of whom are associated with American modernism.
University of Oregon
$20,000 Eugene, OR
To support Unparalleled, a week-long series of educational workshops, lectures, and exhibitions featuring
product design in Oregon. Hosted by the Department of Product Design at the University of Oregon, the
program offers free educational experiences to design novices through design professionals, with the aim of
empowering people to actively engage through design in making life more livable, functional, and beautiful.
Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture (aka Van Alen Institute)
$50,000 New York, NY
To support Van Alen Sessions film series. The short films will use narrative filmmaking to examine vital issues
facing cities and the public realm, covering a broad range of topics that relate to the livability of cities, such as
tunnels and power lines. The program will investigate how cities change over time and shape our routines and
relationships, telling the stories of people who are affected by cities on a daily basis, alongside insight from
experts. The videos in the series will be created in partnership with filmmakers and architects, artists, and urban
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.