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AUGUST 2014 
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PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT - NEST
NEFA EVENTS
PING PONG PUBLIC ART
CENTER STAGE TOUR UPDATE
GRANTS AWARDED
APPLY FOR A GRANT
         
CONNECT 
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NEFA builds connections among artists, arts organizations, and funders, powering the arts to energize communities in New England, the nation, and the world.

NEFA is a nonprofit that operates in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the New England state arts agencies, with additional funding from foundations, corporations, individuals and other government agencies.

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PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT - NEST  

New England States Touring (NEST) provides grants that support the presentation of artists in performance and other community activities in New England. Who's eligible to apply? New England-based nonprofit organizations interested in presenting NEST-eligible performing artists. Search for NEST-eligible artists on  CreativeGround, NEFA's directory of the region's artists and creative enterprises. Performing artists who wish to be NEST-eligible can do so by maintaining a free artist profile on CreativeGround.

Wondering how to create a NEST-eligible profile on CreativeGround?  Watch the video or follow these instructions.

Read about the recent NEST grantees, and view the artist profiles on CreativeGround.

Want to bring regional artists to your community? Don't miss the next NEST Deadlines: September 2 & December 1, 2014.
NEFA EVENTS
New!
AUGUST 20, 2014 | BOSTON, MA
NEFA Info Session
Come for an overview of NEFA's grants and programs for artists and organizations. A highlight will be a demonstration of NEFA's newest tool, CreativeGround. RSVP.

Registration Now Open!
NOVEMBER 13, 2014 | WORCESTER, MA
IDEA SWAP  

What's the Idea Swap? Check out this highlight reel from 2013. 
PING PONG PUBLIC ART 

On July 24, a few NEFA staff members and Fund for the Arts advisors attended the opening of Bounce, by Boston-based artist Liz Nofziger, on the plaza of the Boston Center for the Arts. Funded in part by the Fund for the Arts at NEFA, Bounce is an interactive outdoor installation made up of three conjoined, regulation-sized ping pong tables, custom-engineered to form an over-sized community ping pong court. Read more about the project's opening on NEFA's blog.

 

CENTER STAGE - UPDATED TOURS 

Six more Center Stage ensembles - from Morocco, Pakistan, and Vietnam - will be touring across the U.S. from September through November, with several performances in New England. Fifteen performances were added to the tour calendar since just last month; stay tuned on the Events page, Facebook and Twitter as there are still some events to be announced!

 

Image: Arabesque (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam); photo by Duc Den Thui

GRANTS AWARDED  

NEFA recently awarded almost $1.6 million in grants; click below for details, and view the new NDP and NTP awards publications:   
APPLY FOR A GRANT
Upcoming application deadlines; learn more at www.nefa.org:

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

OCTOBER 14, 2014
ROLLING DEADLINES