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The National Endowment for the Arts Awards $1,072,700 for Art Projects in Tennessee

By: Suzanne Lynch, Director of Marketing and Development –

In the second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2015, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will make awards to 15 nonprofit art and design organizations in Tennessee totaling $1,072,700. This includes $767,700 awarded through a state partnership agreement with the Tennessee Arts Commission for programs that move communities forward through the arts.

NEA Chairman Jane Chu said, “The NEA is committed to advancing learning, fueling creativity, and celebrating the arts in cities and towns across the United States, including in Tennessee. Funding these new projects represents a significant investment in local communities and the creative vitality of Tennessee.”

“These grant dollars will help the arts to invest in communities across the state. Arts and culture in Tennessee contributes to a vibrant place to live, work and raise a family by enhancing community cohesion and pride, increasing public health and safety, and celebrating essential values that make us who we are as Tennesseans,” says Anne B. Pope, Executive Director of the Tennessee Arts Commission.

The following received funding for FY16:
  • Tennessee Arts Commission, Statewide: $767,700
  • ArtsBuild, Chattanooga, TN: $10,000
  • Gateway Chamber Orchestra, Clarksville, TN: $10,000
  • Cumberland County Playhouse, Inc., Crossville, TN: $10,000
  • Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN: $10,000
  • Knox County, Tennessee, Knoxville, TN: $10,000
  • Country Music Foundation, Inc., Nashville, TN: $35,000
  • Frist Center for the Visual Arts Inc., Nashville, TN: $30,000
  • Humanities Tennessee, Nashville, TN: $30,000
  • Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, Nashville, TN: $100,000
  • Nashville Academy Theatre & Nashville Children’s Theatre Association, Nashville, TN: $10,000
  • Nashville Ballet, Nashville, TN: $15,000
  • Nashville Repertory Theatre, Inc., Nashville, TN: $10,000
  • Nashville Shakespeare Festival, Nashville, TN: $15,000
  • Salama Urban Ministries, Inc., Nashville, TN: $10,000