2012 Grant Awards: Art Works

[ August 11, 2011 deadline ]

Arts Education | Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature
Local Arts Agencies | Media Arts | Museums | Music | Musical Theater
Opera | Presenting | Theater | Visual Arts

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Design

Alaska Design Forum, Inc. (aka ADF)
Anchorage, AK
$25,000
To support a lecture series titled HERE: From Global to Hyperlocal. Internationally acclaimed artists and designers will speak about the meaning of place and innovative ways of approaching challenges affecting urban and rural Alaska.

Alpha Workshops, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Decorative Arts Training. The project involves multiple 10-week beginner courses and a 26-week advanced course that are targeted to low-income, HIV-positive individuals.

American Institute of Graphic Arts (aka AIGA)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the National Design and Social Impact Mentorship Program. The program serves to encourage middle- and high-school students to pursue design as a career path by demonstrating the industry's vitality and the potential for social impact.

Architectural League of New York
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Emerging Voices: 30 Years. The project will include the production of a book, exhibition, and series of symposia that will document the first 30 years of the prestigious Emerging Voices program, a juried lecture series and award program that has had a profound impact on the field of architecture.

Architecture for Humanity (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support Building Blocks for Sustainable Schools, a pilot program for greening schools nationwide. In collaboration with United States Green Building Council, the project will develop a technical and financial assistance program to support green renovation and modernization of existing school facilities.

Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the expansion of the online digital archive, Women of 20th Century American Architecture. The expansion will involve a jury to select and research the work of significant women architects and designers who helped shape the built environment in the United States prior to 1970.

buildingcommunityWORKSHOP (aka bcWORKSHOP)
Dallas, TX
$20,000
To support City Stories: Dallas. This project will include several events and an exhibition to engage community members in discussing the impact of planning and design on their neighborhoods.

Chicago Architecture Foundation (aka CAF) (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support Neighborhood Voices. In collaboration with South Shore, Inc., the project will provide culturally specific docent training and tour development to engage residents in celebrating, re-imagining, and redesigning their communities.

City Futures Inc. (aka Center for an Urban Future)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Designing New York: A Policy Convening. The convening will bring together key leaders in economic development, government, higher education, and design companies to discuss and guide future collaborations that foster growth of the New York design sector.

City Lore, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support History Happens Here: Community-Based Place Marking, an innovative web-based resource. In collaboration with Municipal Art Society, the project will include development of an enhanced online toolkit to assist communities with identifying and marking places of significance.

City of Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston, SC
$15,000
To support urban design strategies for Federal Emergency Management Agency Velocity Zone (FEMA V-Zone) regulations. Project activities include researching, developing, and promulgating urban design strategies and guidelines for improving livability and economic vitality in areas affected by FEMA V-Zone regulations.

City of Salem, Massachusetts
Salem, MA
$25,000
To support the planning for public art in downtown Salem, Massachusetts. Urban design consultants will be engaged to develop schematic designs for the Essex Street Pedestrian Mall, including recommendations for locations and types of public art installations and performance spaces.

Cooleemee Historical Association (aka Textile Heritage Center)
Cooleemee, NC
$35,000
To support the adaptive reuse of the Cooleemee Cotton Mill. Project activities include a community design charrette, strengthening stakeholder relationships, market research, and a schematic design to transform the cotton mill into a vibrant town center.

Design Impact
Cincinnati, OH
$39,000
To support the American cohort of Design Impact designers. Designers are selected and paired with not-for-profit organizations in India to design solutions that improve access to basic needs, such as a clean water, shelter, or safe environments.

Design Trust for Public Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Public Space Is, an interactive, multimedia website. The website will engage the public to explore the value of public space in today's complex cityscape by highlighting case studies, urban innovators, and best practices in public space design, planning, and policy.

Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI
$35,000
To support the experimental Open Book workshop. The project will include a workshop and exhibition catalogue to envision experimental book design and formats that address the future of the book as a digital, physical, or hybrid object.

Fund for the City of New York, Inc
New York City, NY
$20,000
To support the expansion of ArtHome: Artist Homeownership Program. ArtHome improves conditions for artists by providing them with homeownership counseling, foreclosure prevention counseling, and loan qualification opportunities.

HandMade in America, Inc. (aka HandMade in America Community Development Corporation)
Asheville, NC
$35,000
To support Crafting Vibrant Rural Communities, an artist apprenticeship program. Project activities include planning, designing, and implementing an apprenticeship program for artists to learn how to organize community events and studio tours that stimulate local economic development.

International Sonoran Desert Alliance (aka ISDA) (Consortium)
Ajo, AZ
$30,000
To support the adaptive reuse of the Steinfeld Warehouse in Tucson into a community arts center. In collaboration with Warehouse Arts Management Organization, the project will include the development of construction drawings for the center.

Kent State University Main Campus
Kent, OH
$35,000
To support an exhibition titled Shifting Paradigms of Identity: Creative Technology and Fashion, with related public programs at the Kent State University Museum. Project activities include an exhibition that examines the effects of pioneering applications of technology on fashion, accompanying lectures series, public workshops, and website.

Landscape Architecture Foundation (aka LAF) (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the Case Study Investigation initiative. In collaboration with Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, the initiative will document and develop methods to quantify benefits of landscape projects.

National Building Museum (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the dissemination of teacher training for Green Community Teaching Kits. In collaboration with the California University of Pennsylvania (located in California, PA), the educational kits will reach new school audiences through targeted teacher training that will be available online. The Green Community Teaching Kit is an innovative tool for introducing youth to urban planning and sustainable principles through hands-on activities and a standards-based curriculum that can be incorporated into a yearly academic plan.

National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the production of a short film on the Farnsworth House. The new film will document Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, and the influence it has had around the world during the past 60 years.

Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago (aka NHS)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the Historic Chicago Greystone Initiative. The initiative provides expert cultural heritage programs, workshops, and technical assistance on rehabilitating and greening historic greystone homes located in neighborhoods facing disinvestment and institutional neglect.

Pamphlet Architecture, Ltd.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the publication of Pamphlet Architecture and the affiliated design competition. Through an open call for proposals and a juried competition, design experts and authors will select design proposals that are both exploratory and experimental for publication in the Pamphlet.

Power House Productions (aka PHP)
Detroit, MI
$15,000
To support the design of a sculptural skate park. This project will engage both artists and skateboard professionals to design a park in a vacant commercial lot, thus creating a positive and active use for a neglected and crime-ridden corner of a Detroit neighborhood.

Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
To support Design Initiative for Community Empowerment (DICE). Through DICE, underserved Brooklyn high-school students will be provided an introduction to design through guided studio work, public exhibitions, and visits from accomplished designers along with counseling about college.

Public Design Studio (aka Public Architecture)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support the 1% Program that connects not-for-profits with pro bono services from architecture and design firms. Project activities include the engagement of national, high impact not-for-profits to expand the 1% Program to specifically meet the design needs of national not-for-profits and their local affiliates.

San Antonio River Foundation
San Antonio, TX
$30,000
To support the design of an education and observation pavilion with a solar shade canopy. Design proposals for a permanent pavilion that combines art and science in a compelling and beautifully transformative way will be solicited via an invitation and reviewed by a jury of local artists, architects, designers, and neighborhood representatives to select the winning design.

San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Assn Spur (aka SPUR)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support Grand Reductions: Ten Diagrams that Shaped the City. An exhibition, publication, and public programming series will feature simple diagrams that demonstrate the power of visual communication in reducing complex ideas to simple, iconic distillations of values, policy agendas, and ideologies.

Slought Foundation
Philadelphia, PA
$26,000
To support Mixplace Studio, an exhibition and mentoring initiative in West Philadelphia. The exhibition and planning workshops will engage youth and residents to map and track human and economic resources in the Mantua and Belmont neighborhoods.

Society for Cultural Exchange, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$15,000
To support the Land Art Generator Design Competition for Freshkills Park, New York. The competition will challenge designers to propose large-scale, permanent, site-specific public art installations that can distribute clean, renewable megawatt hours to the New York electrical grid.

University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO
$40,000
To support the integration of universal design into university curricula. University faculty and experts from a wide range of disciplines, including cognitive science, engineering, media design, environmental design, social sciences, writing, and rhetoric, will be brought together for an interdisciplinary two-day workshop to define specific strategies for incorporating universal design into the curriculum.

University of Memphis (on behalf of Art Museum of the University of Memphis)
Memphis, TN
$20,000
To support the publication Paul Revere Williams, American Architect by the Art Museum of the University of Memphis. This scholarly publication will profile the life and work of Paul Revere Williams (1894-1980), the first African American member of the American Institute of Architects and the first elected fellow.

University of the Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support a national design build competition Something from Nothing: Eco-ventions for Urban Landscapes. This juried competition will call on designers to submit proposals that re-imagine the use of derelict and under-utilized urban spaces.

Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture (aka VAI)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the advancement of design excellence in the public realm. The project will engage experienced designers to work on key initiatives that improve the public realm, such as Designing the Parks, a public-private collaboration to promote well-designed public parks in America, and the Lower Mississippi River Delta Design Initiative to create a sustainable future for the coastal Louisiana landscape.

Westcott House Foundation (Consortium)
Springfield, OH
$10,000
To support the Westcott Design Studio targeted to high-school students. In collaboration with Springfield Preservation Alliance, the project will offer students an opportunity to interpret significant historical landmarks through digital media and produce new media artwork.

Youth Design, Inc.
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support Youth Design: Engage for a Change campaign. The campaign includes the creation of a mobile pop-up exhibit that showcases winning designs from the Time to Design Competition and an online broadcast of the Professional Development Seminar Series that profiles career paths for young designers.

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506

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