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National Endowment for the Arts Awards More Than $27.6 Million Across Nation

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In its first 50 years, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded more than $5 billion in grants to recipients in every state and U.S. jurisdiction, the only arts funder in the nation to do so. Today, the NEA announced awards totaling more than $27.6 million in its first funding round of fiscal year 2016, including an Art Works award of $10,000 to the Harrison Center for the Arts to support artist residencies focused on cultural entrepreneurship and related activities.

The Art Works category supports the creation of work and presentation of both new and existing work, lifelong learning in the arts, and public engagement with the arts through 13 arts disciplines or fields.Ā 

NEA Chairman Jane Chu said, ā€œThe arts are part of our everyday lives – no matter who you are or where you live – they have the power to transform individuals, spark economic vibrancy in communities, and transcend the boundaries across diverse sectors of society. Supporting projects like the one from the Harrison Center for the Arts offers more opportunities to engage in the arts every day.ā€Ā 

“This grant will strengthen our program and deep in our impact in urban neighborhoods, particularly, the Promise Zone,ā€ said Harrison Center Executive Director, Joanna Taft.

Through this grant, resident artists, selected through a competitive application process, will be provided with studio space and living accommodations. The artists will produce or develop personal place-based projects that focus on the local neighborhoods and their history, future, assets, people and/or events.

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