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:

â€ĸ 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.

â€ĸ Lead Guitar, $10,000 for guitar education including master classes, tutoring and instruction.

â€ĸ Southwest Folklife Alliance, $35,000 for its annual Tucson Meet Yourself Folklife Festival.

â€ĸ University of Arizona Poetry Center, $10,000 to fund its programming and activities.


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Contact reporter Cathalena E. Burch at cburch@tucson.com or 573-4642. On Twitter @Starburch