Nea 2000 Fiscal Year Grants - Brief Article

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced its first round of grants for the 2000 fiscal year. The NEA was allotted a budget of $97.6 million for Fiscal Year 2000--the same as FY 1998, with $79.6 million of this total figure available for grantmaking funds. Nearly $20 million will be awarded as 820 grants, representative of 25% of the year's budget. Creation and Presentation grants, the largest of the NEA's four major funding categories, account for $16.9 million of that figure. The Creation and Presentation (C&P) grants are primarily designed to help foster and present new works in music, dance, visual arts, theater, literature and film under the subheadings of projects reaching national or multi-state and local audiences. Overall, 34% of the awards--a total of $6.7 million--will be awarded to projects reaching national or multi-state audiences. A total of 709 C&P grants, amounting to $16.9 million, was awarded from a pool of 1183 applicants. This latter figure of applications represents a 20% i ncrease from the previous year. $820,00 is to be awarded as 41 Literature Fellowships of $20,000 each.

Below are grants that we believe will be of interest to Afterimage readers, culled from the Media Arts, Visual Arts, Museum, Interdisciplinary and Leadership Initiative categories.