NEA to grant California groups 18 awards of $10,000 each
The National Endowment for the Arts will award $1.7 million through 171 grants in its Challenge America Fast-Track Review Grants program.
The grants, announced today by the federal arts agency, include 18 awards of $10,000 each to California arts organizations. Many of the grants bring arts activities to underserved populations whose access is “limited by geography, ethnicity, economics or disability.”
Los Angeles area recipients include the Collage Dance Theatre, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles and the Regents of UCLA, which will receive funds to support Demonstration Performances, a series of demonstrations by renowned artists for underserved youth. The free events serve about 25,000 students per year.
Other California grantees include San Jose’s Arab American Congress of Silicone Valley, to support the ninth annual Arab Film Festival; San Francisco’s Bindlestiff Studio, for the ninth annual piNoisepop Festival, a celebration of Asian and Filipino American music; and the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland and the Sierra Repertory Theatre Inc. in Sonora, to support a production of “King Lear.”
The new grants are in addition to the $21 million announced earlier this month in the agency’s first round of federal grants for 2005.
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