Beyond its recent CARES Act funding, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) regularly funds arts organizations across the U.S., and has announced its second round of fiscal year 2020 funding. The funds, totaling $84 million, amount to 1,144 new awards to organizations in all 50 states, including the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, and covers 13 artistic disciplines, arts research, and partnership agreements with all U.S. state and regional arts agencies.
States Mary Anne Carter, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts: “These awards demonstrate the continued creativity and excellence of arts projects across America and the nimbleness of our nation’s arts organizations in the face of a national crisis that shuttered their doors for months… the National Endowment for the Arts again celebrates the opportunity to make the arts available to every corner of the country and to see how the arts can heal and unite us.”
Disclosure: Glasstire, an awardee, received $20,000.
Among other Texas arts organizations that received NEA funds for 2020: the Grace Museum in Abilene, which received $10,000 to photograph and digitize 2,500 works in its permanent collection and establish an online database.
Says Grace Executive Director Laura Moore: “Our goal is to connect people and other museums/institutions with 82 years of rarely-exhibited or never-before-seen items from our permanent art collection, and to find additional ways of utilizing images within our arts outreach and programming. We are… so appreciative of the NEA for their support and belief in our work.”
The Austin Film Festival received $15,000 for its On Story Project, one of 1,015 national grants in the category.
Barbara Morgan, Austin Film Festival Executive Director, states: “The content captured at the Festival directly reflects its reputation for being an intimate, instructive, and inspirational experience. We couldn’t be more thrilled for this incredible opportunity given by the NEA to help us provide these resources to the general public, free to anyone with an interest in storytelling through film, television, and new media.”
NALAC Grants Award $52,000 to Texas Latinx Artists
Other Texas visual arts organizations receiving 2020 Round Two NEA grants include DiverseWorks, Houston, ($25,000); Art League Houston,($20,000); Houston Center for Photography ($20,000); NALAC, San Antonio, ($15,000); and Arts Council of Fort Worth ($20,000).
The complete list is as follows, Via the NEA:
Number of Grants: 54 Total Dollar Amount: $2,623,300
Abilene Arts Alliance (aka Abilene Cultural Affairs Council)
$15,000 Abilene, TX Art Works – Local Arts Agencies
Grace Museum Inc
$10,000 Abilene, TX Art Works – Museums
Allison Orr Dance Inc. (aka Forklift Danceworks)
$10,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Dance
Austin Chamber Music Center (aka ACMC)
$45,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Arts Education
Austin Children’s Museum
$20,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Museums
Austin Classical Guitar Society (aka Austin Classical Guitar)
$80,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Arts Education
Austin Film Festival, Inc.
$15,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Media Arts
Austin Film Society
$20,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Media Arts
Austin Lyric Opera (aka Austin Opera)
$25,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Opera
Austin Symphony Orchestra Society, Inc. (aka Austin Symphony)
$25,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Music
Austin Theatre Alliance (aka Paramount and Stateside Theatres)
$95,000 Austin, TX Research Grants in the Arts – Research
Ballet Austin, Incorporated
$10,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Dance
Blue Lapis Light, Inc.
$10,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Dance
Capitol Broadcasting Association, Inc.
$15,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Media Arts
Collide
$35,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works
Conspirare, Inc.
$40,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Music
Contemporary Austin Museum Inc. (aka The Contemporary Austin)
$35,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Visual Arts
Fuse Box Austin
$30,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works
MINDPOP
$54,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Arts Education
Motion Media Arts Center (aka Austin Cinemaker Space)
$15,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Arts Education
Texas Commission on the Arts
$1,087,800 Austin, TX Partnerships (State & Regional) – State & Regional
Texas Folklife Resources
$40,000 Austin, TX Art Works – Folk & Traditional Arts
K Space Contemporary
$10,000 Corpus Christi, TX Art Works – Folk & Traditional Arts
buildingcommunityWORKSHOP (aka bcWORKSHOP)
$25,000 Dallas, TX Our Town – Design
Cara Mia Theatre Co.
$40,000 Dallas, TX Art Works – Theater
Dallas Museum of Art (aka DMA)
$20,000 Dallas, TX Art Works – Museums
Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra
$25,000 Dallas, TX Art Works – Arts Education
University of Texas at El Paso
$20,000 El Paso, TX Art Works – Visual Arts
Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Inc (aka Arts Council of Fort Worth)
$10,000 Fort Worth, TX Art Works – Local Arts Agencies
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc. (aka Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra)
$20,000 Fort Worth, TX Art Works – Music
City of Galveston, Texas
$50,000 Galveston, TX Our Town – Design
American Festival for the Arts (aka AFA)
$20,000 Houston, TX Art Works – Arts Education
Art League of Houston
$20,000 Houston, TX Art Works – Visual Arts
DiverseWorks, Inc.
$25,000 Houston, TX Art Works – Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works
Glasstire
$20,000 Houston, TX Art Works – Visual Arts
Houston Arts Alliance (aka HAA)
$10,000 Houston, TX Art Works – Local Arts Agencies
Houston Center for Photography (aka HCP)
$20,000 Houston, TX Art Works – Visual Arts
Houston Symphony Society (aka Houston Symphony)
$25,000 Houston, TX Art Works – Music
Houston Youth Symphony & Ballet (aka Houston Youth Symphony)
$42,000 Houston, TX Art Works – Arts Education
Inprint, Inc.
$20,000 Houston, TX Art Works – Literary Arts
Museum of Fine Arts Houston (aka MFAH) (on behalf of Glassell School of Art)
$25,000 Houston, TX Art Works – Museums
Society for the Performing Arts (aka SPA)
$30,000 Houston, TX Art Works – Dance
Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts (aka TALA)
$20,000 Houston, TX Art Works – Local Arts Agencies
University of Houston
$20,000 Houston, TX Art Works – Visual Arts
Writers in the Schools (aka WITS)
$50,000 Houston, TX Art Works – Arts Education
Ballroom Cultural Arts Foundation (aka Ballroom Marfa)
$25,000 Marfa, TX Art Works – Visual Arts
Centro Cultural Aztlan, Inc.
$25,000 San Antonio, TX Art Works – Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works
Contemporary Art for San Antonio (aka Blue Star Contemporary)
$20,000 San Antonio, TX Art Works – Visual Arts
Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
$60,000 San Antonio, TX Art Works – Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (aka NALAC)
$15,000 San Antonio, TX Research Grants in the Arts – Research
Symphony Society of San Antonio (aka San Antonio Symphony)
$17,500 San Antonio, TX Art Works – Music
Youth Orchestras of San Antonio (aka YOSA)
$15,000 San Antonio, TX Art Works – Music
Baylor University
$97,000 Waco, TX Research Grants in the Arts – Research
Creative Waco
$50,000 Waco, TX Art Works – Local Arts Agencies
Applications for these Art Works and Our Town recommended grants were submitted in summer 2019 and approved at the end of March 2020. Given the impact of Covid-19 and the time required to make project adjustments, project descriptions can be found through the Arts Endowment’s Recent Grant Search. This list is current as of 6/9/2020.
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The Blaffer Art Museum at UH also received 20k.