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WTJU 91.1 FM to receive $20K grant from the National Endowment for the Arts Published Wednesday, May. 12, 2021, 8:45 pm Join AFP's 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com WTJU 91.1 FM has been approved for a $20,000 Arts Education grant to support the development of an online jazz history curriculum. Adapted from WTJU’s  Jazz at 100 radio series, this project will creatively engage students around the unique story and passion of jazz music. WTJ...

May 13, 2021 The National Endowment for the Arts has approved a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to the Department of Music to support a musical response to Freedom on the Move (FOTM), a database housing digitized, searchable fugitive slave advertisements. The grant, co-written by Lucy Fitz Gibbon, interim director of the Vocal Program, and Martha Guth, Ithaca College, will provide foundational support for Freedom on the Move: Songs in Flight, an ambitious musical project commissioned and administered by the art song organization Sparks & Wiry Cries, resulting in the premiere and subseq...

WTJU May 12th, 2021 | By WTJU WTJU 91.1 FM has been approved for a $20,000 Arts Education grant to support the development of an online jazz history curriculum. Adapted from WTJU’s Jazz at 100 radio series, this project will creatively engage students around the unique story and passion of jazz music. WTJU’s project is among the more than 1,100 projects across America totaling nearly $27 million that were selected during this second round of Grants for Arts Projects fiscal year 2021 funding. “As the country and the arts sector begin to imagine returning to a post-pandemic world, t...

Tantrum Theater to receive $10,000 in grant funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Photo by Jason Hornick Playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton Tantrum Theater, Ohio University’s professional theater, has been approved for a $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support a Tantrum Theater Community Commission. This project supports the commission of a play to be written by playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton in collaboration with the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Preservation Society and Tantrum Theater.  The wor...

Print Eleven San Diego County arts organizations received a combined $203,000 in grants Wednesday from the National Endowment for Arts as part of the federal agency’s spring 2021 funding program. Overall, the NEA disbursed $88 million in grants to more than 1,000 organizations nationwide. The funding included $27 million in individual grants for arts projects planned in the coming year. In California, 177 organizations received a combined $5.5 million in grants for arts projects. The spring funding also included “Our Town” matching grants for arts programs that enrich the community th...