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 multigenerational 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.
The grants are about half of what the NEA awarded Tucson arts groups in 2015. In May 2015, 10 Tucson arts organizations were awarded a total of $285,000 in NEA funding.
