New York City Insider: Representative Adriano Espaillat Announces National Endowment for the Arts First Round of Fiscal Year 2023 Grants.

 

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release January 10, 2023

Representative Adriano Espaillat Announces National Endowment for the Arts  First Round of Fiscal Year 2023 Grants. A Total of $630,000 Grants Awarded to 25 Recipients in New York's 13th Congressional District.   WASHINGTON, DC – Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), announced today the first round of recommended awards for fiscal year 2023, with more than $34 million in funding to support the arts nationwide, including $630,000 to New York's 13th Congressional District.  This is the first of the NEA’s two major grant announcements each fiscal year and includes grants to organizations through the NEA’s Grants for Arts Projects, Challenge America, and Research Awards categories. This announcement also includes grants to individuals for Literature Fellowships in creative writing (poetry) and translation.  "I am delighted to join the NEA in today's announcement highlighting the extraordinary artistic and creative talent and programs in my district," said Rep. Espaillat. "I look forward to continuing my work with each of the recipient organizations and to witnessing how this federal funding will be utilized through the innovative programs and projects they plan this year."    “Together, these grants show the NEA’s support nationwide for strengthening our arts and cultural ecosystems, providing equitable opportunities for arts participation and practice, and contributing to the health of our communities and our economy,” said NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD. “I encourage everyone to explore these projects and the ways they help provide inspiration, understanding, and opportunities for us to live more artful lives.” The full list of recommended grants is available in a state-by-state listing and organized by grant category/discipline. Additional information about the projects can be found using the NEA’s Grant Search.  As part of the application review process, the NEA worked with more than 340 expert reviewers with relevant knowledge and experience who reviewed the applications and rated them in accordance with published review criteria. Recommendations were presented to the National Council on the Arts. The council made its recommendations to the NEA Chair, who made the final decision on all grant awards.  Learn more about the grant review process or volunteer to be a panelist.   Grantees for New York's 13th Congressional District:  American Composers Alliance Inc. Funding amount: $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects  Music Purpose: To support the editing and publishing of new scores by composer Dorothy Rudd Moore. Apollo Theatre Foundation Funding amount: $55,000 Grants for Arts Projects Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works To support a multidisciplinary arts festival.   BalletCollective Inc. Funding amount: $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects  Dance Purpose: To support the development and production of a new work, "The Night Falls." Barnard College Funding amount: $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects  Media Arts Purpose: To support technical staff and equipment rental costs for the 2023 Athena Film Festival and related public programming.   Born Dancing, Inc. Funding amount: $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects  Arts Education Purpose: To support a dance and production apprenticeship program.   Classical Theatre of Harlem Funding amount: $45,000 Grants for Arts Projects Theater Purpose: To support artist fees for the production of Malvolio by Betty Shamieh, as part of the Uptown Shakespeare in the Park program. Columbia University in the City of New York Funding amount: $15,000 Grants for Arts Projects Music Purpose: To support artist fees for concert presentations at Miller Theatre.   Dances For A Variable Population Funding amount: $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects Dance Purpose: To support dance workshops and free public performances.   Bernard Ferguson Funding amount: $25,000 Literature Fellowships: Creative Writing  Literary Arts Purpose: To support a creative writing fellowship.   Futuro Media Group Funding amount: $25,000 Grants for Arts Projects Media Arts Purpose: To support two animated documentary shorts about Harlem Renaissance artists, sculptor Augusta Savage and singer Bessie Smith, and related educational materials. Groove With Me, Inc. Funding amount: $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects  Dance Purpose: To support free dance classes for youth in Harlem and the Bronx. Harlem Chamber Players, Inc. Funding amount: $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects  Music Purpose: To support a concert at Miller Theatre at Columbia University. Harlem Presents, Inc. Funding amount: $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects  Opera Purpose: To support the Harlem Opera Festival 2023. Harlem Stage, Inc. Funding amount: $35,000 Grants for Arts Projects  Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works To support the commissioning and presentation of new multidisciplinary works. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Funding amount: $150,000 Research Labs Research Purpose: To support a research agenda and associated studies that will be designed and implemented by the Assessment of Music Experiences in Navigating Depression (AMEND) lab at Mount Sinai Health System's Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine.   Inheiritance Project Ltd. Funding amount: $20,000 Grants for Arts Projects Theater Purpose: To support staff salaries and artistic fees for the development and production of Exodus: Memphis, a community-devised work.   JACK Music Inc. Funding amount: $15,000 Grants for Arts Projects  Music Purpose: To support the creation, performance, and recording of new works for string quartet.   Korean Art Forum Funding amount: $20,000 Grants for Arts Projects  Visual Arts Purpose: To support the commissioning of temporary outdoor community-based artworks at Inwood Hill Park in New York, with an accompanying catalogue and public programming. Laundromat Project, Inc. Funding amount: $25,000 Grants for Arts Projects Visual Arts Purpose: To support an artist fellowship program and an intensive training institute for artists working in New York City.   Museum of the City of New York Funding amount: $25,000 Grants for Arts Projects  Museums Purpose: To support an inaugural photography triennial exhibition. Musical Mentors Collaborative, Inc. Funding amount: $10,000 Challenge America  Challenge America Purpose: To support private music instruction to children and adults experiencing homelessness. National Dance Institute, Inc. Funding amount: $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects  Arts Education Purpose: To support an in-school dance residency project. Opus 118 Harlem School of Music Funding amount: $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects  Music Purpose: To support the Harlem Center for Strings After-School Program for music education. SoHarlem, Inc. Funding amount: $35,000 Grants for Arts Projects  Design Purpose: To support the Designers' Studio for emerging fashion designers.   Stefanie Nelson Dance Group Funding amount: $10,000 Challenge America  Challenge America Purpose: To support dance workshops and performances by artists with disabilities.