The National Endowment for the Arts awarded six Tucson arts organizations a total of $190,000 in grants this week.
More than half of that money went to one group, the Tucson Pima Arts Council, which received two NEA spring arts funding awards: $30,000 for “The Pima Cultural Plan: Imagine 2025,” and $75,000 for its civic engagement project “Cultural Belonging and Transformation: Placemaking from the Community Up.”
Also receiving NEA springtime grants:
• Arizona Theatre Company, $15,000 for "La Peregrinacion" (The Pilgrimage), a program that brings together multi-generational playwrights for cross-cultural and cross-generation collaborations about the immigration experience.
• Lead Guitar, $10,000 for guitar education including master classes, tutoring and instruction.
• Southwest Folklife Alliance, $35,000 for its annual Tucson Meet Yourself Folklife Festival.
• University of Arizona Poetry Center, $10,000 to fund its programming and activities.
