National Endowment for the Arts Announces First Round of Fiscal Year 2023 Grants
Washington, DC—The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced the first round of recommended awards for fiscal year 2023, with more than $34 million in funding to support the arts nationwide. This is the first of the NEA’s two major grant announcements each fiscal year and includes grants to organizations through the NEA’s Grants for Arts Projects, Challenge America, and Research Awards categories. This announcement also includes grants to individuals for Literature Fellowships in creative writing (poetry) and translation.
“Together, these grants show the NEA’s support nationwide for strengthening our arts and cultural ecosystems, providing equitable opportunities for arts participation and practice, and contributing to the health of our communities and our economy,” said NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD. “I encourage everyone to explore these projects and the ways they help provide inspiration, understanding, and opportunities for us to live more artful lives.”
Rosy Simas Danse (Seneca, Heron Clan) has been awarded $60,000 from NEA! She said “We are beyond excited and honored to be receiving this gift. The award will help us to continue to support the tour of “she who lives on the road to war,” a performance installation created in response to the collective need to grieve, condole and gather in peace and reconciliation. Funds will support the project’s community engagement activities and performances. Through this work audiences are invited to gather, find refuge, rest, condole, witness, and feel compassion. While gaining a greater understanding of how we can all work toward reconciliation during the dual pandemics of systematic racism and COVID-19.”
Rosy Simas (She/Hers), is a choreographer and film and visual artist based in Minneapolis. Her work investigates how culture, history and identity are stored in the body and expressed in movement. For more than twenty years she has created work that addresses a wide range of political, social and cultural subjects from a Native feminist perspective. She has received support from Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, First Peoples Fund, Guggenheim Foundation and McKnight Foundation, and she is a Dance USA Fellow as well as a Joyce Awardee.
