News: 19 Georgia arts organizations awarded $320,000 in NEA grants

The National Endowment of the Arts has awarded $320,000 in grants to 19 Georgia arts organizations, 17 of them in Atlanta. The recipients span music, theater, dance, opera and the visual arts. Yvonne Woon of Decatur, author of young adult novels, scored a creative writing fellowship. Woon tweeted about her fellowship. “It feels like magic,” she wrote. “I didn’t pick up the call [because] I assumed it was spam.”

True Colors Theatre will use its $50,000 grant to support the second year of The Drinking Gourd: Black Writers at Work, a program that focuses resources on the development and production of work by Black playwrights.

ArtsBridge Foundation ($15,000)

AthFest Athens ($25,000)

Atlanta BeltLine Partnership ($10,000)

Atlanta Opera ($15,000)

Dashboard US ($15,000)

Flying Carpet Theatre ($10,000)

Full Radius Dance ($15,000)

Horizon Theatre ($20,000)

Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta ($10,000)

Museum of Design Atlanta ($50,000)

National Black Arts Festival ($25,000)

Reforming Arts ($25,000)

Savannah Music Festival ($35,000)

Synchronicity Theatre ($10,000)

True Colors Theatre ($50,000)

Urban Youth Harp Ensemble ($10,000)

Woodruff Arts Center ($40,000)

Working Title Playwrights ($10,000)