Greetings all,
Happy spring! Or residual winter… or early summer… Pick a day, with this flip-flopping weather! Moving on, we are excited to share with you some new grant opportunities, thoughtful surveys, and interesting announcements from the field. And watch for a special newsletter coming soon with new Our Town guidelines (and a new August 9 deadline – one month earlier than last year!)
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NEA Applicants and Grantees: Changes to SAM.gov Process
If you have applied to the NEA in the past four years, you should have received an email from us earlier this week with the following information. Very important!
The System for Award Management (SAM.gov) has implemented new requirements to address security concerns which may affect your ability to apply to or receive an award or any payments from the National Endowment for the Arts or any other federal agency.
If you are registering a new entity in SAM.gov, or updating or renewing your SAM.gov registration, you must provide an original, signed notarized letter stating that you are the authorized Entity Administrator before your registration will be activated, updated, or renewed.
Read
the FAQs
on SAM.gov to learn more about this process change.
- This requirement went into effect on March 22, 2018, for new entities registering in SAM.gov.
- This requirement will go into effect April 27, 2018, for existing registrations being updated or renewed.
Unfortunately, the NEA has no control over the new SAM requirements and we are unable to allow extensions to posted deadlines due to delays caused by the new SAM requirements. It is expected that this is a temporary measure until there is a permanent solution. Monitor SAM.gov for updates.
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FY2019 Our Town Guidelines Coming Soon!
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New
Our Town guidelines
for place-based projects and knowledge building will be posted early next week! Keep an eye out for a special newsletter with an introduction to the guidelines, registration links for webinars, and an explanation of our theory of change for the program.
Please also note we have a new deadline – August 9 – one month earlier than last year!
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Mayors' Institute on City Design begins 2018 Season
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The 69th
Mayors' Institute on City Design
was held in beautiful Charleston, SC, from April 11-13. Through this program, mayors participate in intensive workshops, and receive expert advice on specific local issues from renowned professionals representing fields of urban design, planning, architecture, landscape architecture, transportation, infrastructure, and real estate.
Congratulations to the mayors from Albuquerque, NM; Bozeman, MT; Eugene, OR; Findlay, OH; McKinney, TX; Santa Clara, CA; and St. Augustine, FL, who now join the 1100+ MICD alumni who have returned to their cities prepared to lead as “Chief Urban Designers.”
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Design+CP Staff Out and About
Note: These links lead to websites other than arts.gov.
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Katherine in Charleston and Courtney in Chicago (Chicago Cultural Center photo by John Zich - www.zrIMAGES.com)
Travel season continues! Noted below are a few recent events and some upcoming places where we will be speaking:
16th Venice Architecture Biennale
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Chicago launch, April 10
– Courtney gave remarks at the press launch for U.S. Pavilion exhibition, which is being commissioned by the University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition, themed
Dimensions of Citizenship
, is curated by Niall Atkinson, Ann Lui, and Mimi Zeiger, with associate curator Iker Gil, and looks at seven different scales for “understanding, shaping, and envisioning what it means to be a citizen today.” Watch this space for what is sure to be a remarkable exhibition!
Mayors Institute on City Design
– Charleston, SC, April 11-13
- At the 69
th
MICD, Katherine presented on creative placemaking to an audience of mayors and urban design and planning experts from around the country.
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Photo from Wikipedia
Grantee Feature: Detroit Institute of Arts
In 2017, the NEA awarded the Detroit Institute of Arts an Our Town grant to reimagine its grounds into the "town square" of Midtown Detroit, creating a new space to show public art and a central gathering space for the neighborhood. The museum is working in partnership with the non-profit Metro Detroit and the City of Detroit Mayor's Office, and has
recently launched a design competition
called DIA Plaza and Midtown Cultural Connections. The project is one part of a larger partnership with local cultural institutions to “develop a grand vision for the district.” The
RFQ
is due April 30, and you can read more about the project in the
Detroit Free Press
.
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Updates on Creative Placemaking
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As the work of creative placemaking has taken root in diverse communities and practice areas across the country, we are excited to share with you some updates from these Our Town knowledge building grantees and our partners in the field:
- This summer, Springboard for the Arts is offering a series of intensive “train the trainer” courses designed to help artists and community development practitioners gather tools and sharpen skills for advancing equitable development through arts and culture. Scholarships are available.
- Transportation for America has announced communities selected to receive State of the Art Transportation Trainings. Congratulations to Bozeman, MT; Buffalo, NY; and Mariposa County, CA, which will each receive tailored technical assistance to equip them to utilize arts, culture and other creative approaches for solving specific transportation problems.
- Lessons from the Kresge Foundation’s Journey to Creative Placemaking – the integration of arts, culture and resident-engaged design into community development and planning – are highlighted in a series of white papers launched recently by foundation’s Arts & Culture Program. The papers are geared toward helping grantmakers and creative placemaking practitioners more successfully integrate arts and culture into community development.
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Note: These links lead to websites other than arts.gov.
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Museum of Arts and Design: Burke Prize Call for Entries
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A new annual award that reinforces MAD’s commitment to celebrating the next generation of artists working to advance the disciplines that shaped the American studio craft movement, the Burke Prize is an unrestricted $50,000 award made to a professional artist under the age of 45 working in glass, fiber, clay, metals, or wood.
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Institute of Museum and Library Services: Community Grant Opportunity
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IMLS has announced Activating Community Opportunities Using Museums/Libraries as Assets. The program offers grants up to $150,000 to support projects that address significant challenges and opportunities facing the library, archive, and museum (LAM) fields and that have the potential to advance theory and practice.
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Society of Architectural Historians: Call for Author Award Applications
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The SAH is accepting applications for the 2018 SAH/Mellon Author Awards. These awards are designed to provide financial assistance to scholars who are publishing their first monograph on the history of the built environment and who are responsible for paying for rights and permissions for images.
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Association for Community Design: Racial Justice in Design Survey
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The ACD recently received a grant from the Surdna Foundation to conduct research exploring how design can be used as a tool for encouraging racial justice. The first phase of this research is focused on learning as much as possible about how this work is already happening. If you are part of a design initiative whose work in any way connects to, or is concerned with issues of racial justice, please fill out the survey.
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Arizona State University: ReDesign.School Survey
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In April, ASU launched ReDesign.School, a platform to listen and engage with the best minds in the design world and rethink design education. The online portal is seeking answers to some basic questions about how university design education needs to change (through a survey) and offers a platform for dialogue.
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AIGA: 2018 Medalists Announced
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The medal of AIGA - the most distinguished in the field - is awarded to individuals for their exceptional achievements, services or other contributions to the field of design and visual communication. This year’s medalists include
Aaron Douglas (posthumously),
Arem Duplessis,
Karin Fong,
Susan Kare, and
Victor Moscoso.
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Our first
NEA Arts
issue in 2018 highlights women in the arts. Featured are theater artist, director, producer (and National Council on the Arts member) Diane Rodriguez, video game designer Brenda Laurel, visual artist Wendy Red Star, 2018 NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves, choreographer Bebe Miller, and National Museum of Women in the Arts Director Susan Fisher Sterling. In their own words, these talented artists and arts administrators talk about the obstacles they encounter and the accomplishments they have achieved.
And don’t miss the online-only features: a talk with Project H Design and Girls Garage founder Emily Pilloton (a Design Art Works grantee!) and a fascinating conversation between Poets Laureate Tracy K. Smith and Rita Dove.
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Model Naomi Campbell takes a spill in Vivienne Westwood heels; image from
Running in Heels
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Nerdy Design Thing We Are Following
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Love heels? Hate to wear them? This article (and these shoes) are for you! Fast Company writer Elizabeth Segran
recently reported
on a new wave of women designers taking a hard look at beautiful shoes and how to make them more wearable.
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Acting Director, Design & Creative Placemaking
Specialist - Art Works Design
Specialist - Our Town
Assistant Grants Management Specialist
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