The National Endowment for the Arts makes the following announcements of grants of stimulus money for Texas arts projects in the Austin area. The Texas total is $825,000 and that for Austin institutions is $325,000, of which $50,000 goes to the Rude Mechanicals Theatre Collective. Funding announced nation-wide represents $30 million of the $50 million in supplementary stimulus funds Congress authorized for the NEA.
FY 2009 Grant Awards: State Listings
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
The following nonprofit arts organizations are receiving grants to support the preservation of jobs that are threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn.
TEXAS
Center for Women & Their Work
Austin, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
Fund for Folk Culture
Austin, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
Motion Media Arts Center
Austin, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
Rude Mechanicals-A Theatre Collective
Austin, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museums
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED FROM REGULAR FUNDING
Texas Commission on the Arts
Austin, TX
$427,300
[Initial reporting source: Statesman's Austin360 site, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin's "Seeing Things" blog, July 8]
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