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: Pepper Smith, smiths@arts.gov or 202/682-5790

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

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

Design (including architecture, communications and graphic design, fashion design, industrial and product design, interior design, landscape architecture, planning, universal design, and urban 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 or LAA. Local arts agencies generally are referred to as arts councils, departments of cultural affairs, or arts commissions. LAAs can be private entities or 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.): Dinah Walls, wallsd@arts.gov or 202/682-5586

Media Arts:

March deadline: Mary Smith, smithm@arts.gov or 202/682-5742

August deadline: Laura Welsh, welshl@arts.gov or 202/682-5738

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

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):

March Deadline:
Presenting Specialists: Lara Allee, alleel@arts.gov or 202/682-5698 and Pepper Smith (Outdoor Festivals), smiths@arts.gov or 202/682-5790.

August Deadline:
Presenting Specialists: Lara Allee, alleel@arts.gov or 202/682-5698 and Pepper Smith (Services and Artist Training), smiths@arts.gov or 202/682-5790.

Theater & Musical Theater (including theater and musical theater presentation):

Organizations with names that begin A through M: Eleanor Denegre, denegree@arts.gov or 202/682-5509

Organizations with names that begin N through Z: Carol Lanoux Lee, leec@arts.gov or 202/682-5020

Visual Arts: 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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Washington, DC 20506