PRESENTING

This area is for performing arts presenting projects of multidisciplinary presenters. Typical applicants include:

• University, college, and municipal performing arts centers.
• Private nonprofit presenters of all sizes including community-based and alternative spaces.
• Multidisciplinary presenting organizations without their own facilities.
• Culturally-specific presenters.
• Multidisciplinary performing arts festivals.

This area also accommodates projects from arts service organizations that serve artists and arts organizations from a variety of disciplines in the performing arts presenting and touring field.

NOTE: Projects that combine performing arts presenting and non-performing art forms - such as film and video, visual arts, or design - should apply under Multidisciplinary, not here.

An organization may submit only one application under these FY 2005 Grants for Arts Projects guidelines. These guidelines offer funding opportunities for presenting projects through three categories:

Access to Artistic Excellence

This category offers Standard Review Grants that use the agency's traditional method of application review. Applications are submitted to the Presenting staff and are reviewed by a diverse group of experts in the presenting field.

Applications will be accepted under two deadlines: March 15, 2004, and August 16, 2004. The Access to Artistic Excellence category provides support for projects from multidisciplinary presenters that include but are not limited to:

March 15, 2004, Application Deadline

• Presentation: The presentation of works in any combination of performing arts disciplines. Presentation projects may include ancillary activities such as lecture-demonstrations and workshops.

• Commissioning/Producing: Commissioning and/or production support (such as rehearsal time, workshops, and/or work-in-progress presentations) for the creation of new performing arts works or for the remounting of significant works.

• Collaborations: Collaborations with other presenters and/or community organizations.

August 16, 2004, Application Deadline

• Access and Engagement: Projects that focus on providing increased cultural participation and community access to the performing arts, particularly to underserved communities.

• Preservation: The assessment, archiving, conservation, restoration, and/or access to/dissemination of significant performing arts related material.

• Services to the Field: The provision of services to the presenting and touring field. This may include conferences, professional development, technical assistance, organizational assessments, and on-line and ticketing services. Service projects that focus on a single discipline (e.g., dance, music, visual arts) should apply through that discipline.

Presenting Specialist: 202/682-5658

Challenge America Fast-Track Review Grants

June 1, 2004, Application Deadline

Fast-Track Review Grants receive an expedited review. Applications are submitted to the Challenge America Fast-Track Review Grants staff and are reviewed by a diverse group of arts experts and other individuals with broad knowledge of the specific types of projects in this funding area.

This category offers $10,000 grants to small and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations - those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. This category is best suited to organizations with limited operating budgets. Projects that are supported in this category generally are smaller in scale and shorter in duration than those in the Access to Artistic Excellence or Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth categories. Projects are limited to the examples that are provided in the expanded Challenge America Fast-Track Review Grants description.

Challenge America Fast-Track Review Grants Specialists: 202/682-5700

Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth

June 14, 2004, Application Deadline

This category offers Standard Review Grants that use the agency's traditional method of application review. Applications are submitted to the Learning in the Arts staff and are reviewed by a diverse group of arts experts and other individuals with broad knowledge related to arts learning.

Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth funds projects that help children and youth acquire knowledge, skills, and understanding of the arts consistent with national, state, or local arts education standards. It also funds projects that recognize and cultivate best practices and exemplary research that explores the effect of arts learning on the cognitive and social development of children and youth. Projects may take place in school-based or community-based settings. See examples of the types of projects that are funded in this category in the expanded Learning in the Arts description.

Learning in the Arts Specialists:
Design, Literature, Media Arts, Museums, Visual Arts                            202/682-5521
Folk & Traditional Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Multidisciplinary,
    Presenting                                                                                    202/682-5690
Music organizations with names that begin A through L, Musical Theater,
    Opera, Theater                                                                             202/682-5688
Dance, Music organizations with names that begin M through Z             202/682-5044

If you wish to apply:

National Endowment for the Arts
webmgr@arts.endow.gov