NOTICE:
Due to Hurricane Irene, the National Endowment for the Arts is extending the deadline for the Arts in Media category for applicants in Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania,

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New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine only.

The new deadline for applicants in the affected states is September 6, 2011, at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time.

[Material that must be mailed directly to the Arts Endowment must be postmarked (or show other proof of mailing) no later than September 7, 201 1. ] If you have already successfully submitted an application, you do not need to submit it again.

The Arts Endowment�s support of a project may start on May 1, 2012, or any time thereafter.Through this category, the National Endowment for the Arts seeks to make the excellence and diversity of the arts widely available to the American public through every available media platform including television, radio, the Internet, interactive and mobile technologies, digital games, and satellite.

By increasing the accessibility and impact of the arts, the Arts Endowment aims to strengthen the creativity of our nation.

Grants are available to support the development, production, and national distribution of innovative media projects about the arts (e.g., visual arts, music, dance, literature, design, theater, musical theater, opera, folk & traditional arts, and media arts including film, audio, animation, and digital art) and media projects that can be considered works of art.

The NEA is seeking and will give priority to artistically excellent projects that have the potential to reach a significant national audience, through their primary platform, regardless of the size or geographic location of the applicant organization.

Only projects of the highest artistic excellence and merit, in both media production and subject matter, will be funded.

Projects may include high profile multi-part or single television and radio programs (documentaries and dramatic narratives); media created for theatrical release; performance programs; artistic segments for use within an existing series; multi-part webisodes; installations; and interactive games.

Short films, five minutes and under, will only be considered in packages of three or more.

Projects may deal with any subject matter or art form, and those targeted to children and youth are welcome.The agency encourages innovative, entertaining, compelling, and artistically crafted media projects that not only increase access to, but also enhance public knowledge and understanding of, the arts.

Such projects might be multi-platform or transmedia.

They may include the use of radio and television, DVDs, interactive web sites, live streaming, audio- and video-on-demand, podcasts, MP3 files, mobile, or other digital applications including games.

Projects may include enhancements such as educational materials and/or foster collaborations with arts organizations, educators, and community groups.

Media distribution to schools, libraries, as well as homes, and other substantive public engagement strategies will be given priority.Applications should clearly demonstrate the organization�s ability to complete the project in a timely fashion and to achieve national distribution.

Further, in order to reach the widest possible audience, this category will give priority to projects that include a well articulated social media strategy.