National Endowment for the Arts - Newswire - Brief Article

The National Endowment for the Arts has announced 819 grants to be awarded during its first 2002 fiscal circle of time The grants, totaling $19.4 million, account for 20 percent of the Endowment's stocks for the year, and will be distributed chiefly to nonprofit organizations end the Endowment's "Creativity" and "Organizational Capacity" categories. The majority of the capitals $16.6 million, was awarded to 726 on the outside of 1187 applicants in the "Creativity" category, from which a casted 7,000 artistic events and/or opportunities for interaction between artists and audiences will be generated. Within the "Organizational Capacity" category, 48 on the outside of 79 applicants will receive a share of $19 million, and 45 Literature Fellowships, totaling $820000 were awarded to individual writers. This year's packet boasts an increase of $10 million above last year, and marks solitary the second consecutive budgetary increase since 1992 Of this year's total parcel of $115.2 million, $96.7 million is earmarked for grants. Fourteen sep arate discipline areas compound the "Creativity" category, and the following is a list of the three largest awards in four culled discipline areas: In the "Media Arts" category Sundance Institute for Film and Teievision of Park City, UT received $110000 in support of its "Feature Film Program" and the "House of Docs," while Facets Multimedia of Chicago, IL, received $60000 in support of the annual "Chicago International Children's Film Festival." Film Forum (Moving image) of fresh York City also received $60000 to support the theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign films. Heading the awards in the "Multidisciplinary" category, the Wexner Center Foundation of Columbus, OH received $85000 in support of commissions of visual, performing and media art works. The 2 Spoleto Festival USA of Charleston, SC was a distant next to the first with an award of $60000 for the production of the "2002 Spoleto Festival USA." A slightly smaller award of $50000 was given Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center of of recent origin York City to support the disentanglement of professional writers in all genre Within the "Museums" designation, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston received $110000 to support a touring exhibition upon the history of Japanese photography. one as well as the other Los Angeles County Museum of Art and fresh York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art received $100000 to support their respective exhibitions "Noh and Kyogen Theater in Japan" and the "The Timeless Genius of Leonardo da Vinci." In the "Visual Arts" category, throw out Row Houses of Houston, TX a residency program commissioning artist installations in several shotgun-style file houses, received $50,000. Light Work Visual Studies of Syracuse, NY received $40000 in support of their residency program for artists and the associated publication of Contact Sheet, while Philadelphia-based Taller Puertorriqueno, an exhibition and commissioning cast featuring artist's installations that address the notion of sanctuary within urban blight, received the same amount. For a perfect li sting of all NEA grants in the categories above, please visit our Web site: www.afterimageonline.org.

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