Agency Contacts

If you have questions about your application, please use the list below to determine your appropriate staff contact. We also encourage you to check the "Frequently Asked Questions" for information.

For Art Works, contact the staff for the field/discipline that is most appropriate for your project:

Artist Communities: For all projects except Livability: Pepper Smith, smiths@arts.gov or 202/682-5790; for Livability projects: Mario Garcia Durham, durhamm@arts.gov or 202/682-5469

Arts Education (pre-K through 12 curriculum-based projects that align with national or state arts education standards):

Dance (including dance presentation): Janelle Ott Long, ottlongj@arts.gov or 202/682-5739; Juliana Mascelli, mascellij@arts.govor 202/682-5656

Design (including planning, urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, product design, and graphic design): Jen Hughes, hughesj@arts.gov, or 202/682-5547

Folk & Traditional Arts (including folk & traditional arts projects in any art form): William Mansfield, mansfieldw@arts.gov or 202/682-5678; Barry Bergey, bergeyb@arts.gov or 202/682-5726

Literature: Amy Stolls, stollsa@arts.gov or 202/682-5771

Local Arts Agencies(including projects in any discipline that are submitted by a local arts agency. Local arts agencies generally are referred to as arts councils, departments of cultural affairs, or arts commissions. While the majority are private entities, others are public municipal, county, or regional agencies that operate in cooperation with mayors and city managers. Local arts agencies generally make grant awards directly to both artists and arts organizations, present programming to the public, manage cultural facilities, provide services to artists and arts organizations, and facilitate community cultural planning. Statewide assemblies and cultural service organizations that work specifically with local arts agencies also are eligible, but only for projects that will predominantly serve local arts agencies. Applicants such as arts and business councils, audience alliances, or lawyers for the arts organizations also are included, but may only apply under the March 10 Art Works deadline for service activities developed in coordination with a local arts agency. Projects may be for any type of constituent service.): Dinah Walls, wallsd@arts.gov or 202/682-5586

Media Arts: Mary Smith, smithm@arts.gov or 202/682-5742

Museums (including projects in any discipline that are submitted by a museum): Wendy Clark, clarkw@arts.gov or 202/682-5555                      

Music (including music presentation):
Organizations with names that begin A through L: Court Burns, burnsc@arts.gov or 202/682-5590
Organizations with names that begin M through Z: Anya Nykyforiak, nykyfora@arts.gov or 202/682-5487
Jazz Projects: Katja von Schuttenbach, vonschuttenbach@arts.gov or 202/682-5711

Musical Theater (including musical theater presentation): Eleanor Denegre, denegree@arts.gov or 202/682-5509; Carol Lanoux Lee, leec@arts.gov or 202/682-5020

Opera (including opera presentation): Georgianna Paul, paulg@arts.gov or 202/682-5600

Presenting (projects that involve multiple arts disciplines including multidisciplinary performing arts presenting and other types of multidisciplinary activities):

Engagement projects for underserved communities (March deadline)/Creation projects and Engagement projects for presentation (August deadline): Silvio Lim, lims@arts.gov or 202/682-5658

Engagement projects for outdoor festivals and Learning projects (March deadline)/Engagement projects for services to the field and preservation, and Learning projects for artist training (August deadline): Sidney Smith, smiths@arts.gov or 202/682-5790

Livability projects (August deadline): Mario Garcia Durham, durhamm@arts.gov or 202/682-5469

Theater (including theater presentation): Eleanor Denegre, denegree@arts.gov or 202/682-5509; Carol Lanoux Lee, leec@arts.gov or 202/682-5020

Visual Arts(including painting, sculpture/installation, crafts, photography, printmaking, drawing, public art, and newer forms/mediums such as video, computer, and Internet-based work): Meg Brennan, brennanm@arts.gov or 202/682-5703

For Challenge America Fast Track: contact the staff at fasttrack@arts.gov or 202/682-5700.

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