Project Grant SEN10010GR024

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $223,000 project grant to support in-country costs for U.S. Arts Envoy Clark Beckham and his band's participation in the Rigas Ritmi music festival in Riga and Kuldiga, Latvia. The grant funding supported the band's performance and engagement activities at the festival from June 27 to July 31, 2022 under the agency's Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040). This federal grant program aims to advance U.S. foreign policy and...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded $267,503 under the Public Diplomacy Programs federal grant (CFDA 19.040) to support the performance of "Song of the Shank" by U.S. artists at the 2023 Wiener Festwochen festival in Austria. George Lewis will compose and Jeffery Renard Allen will author and write the libretto for the musical work. Stan Douglas will contribute visual art, and the Ensemble Modern will perform the piece at the June 13-15, 2023...

Found Sound Nation Inc. received a $700,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (CFDA 19.415: Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges) on September 26, 2025, to implement the FY 2025 American Music Mentorship Program. With total obligations of $762,448, the award supports international educational and cultural exchange initiatives designed to foster mutual understanding between Americans and foreign citizens...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded $451,677 under the Public Diplomacy Programs federal grant program (CFDA 19.040) to support implementation of a project providing for the performance and public talk by a U.S. soprano at the Riga Jurmala Festival in Latvia from July 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021. The Public Diplomacy Programs aim to support U.S. foreign policy goals through informing and influencing foreign publics. This award advances those...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $110,000 project grant to support American participation in the Visagino Country Music Festival in Lithuania. The grant was awarded under the Public Diplomacy Programs federal grant program (CFDA 19.040) to promote inclusion and share democratic values through cultural exchange in a majority Russian-speaking region. Specifically, the funding will support the Tarptautinio Muzikos Festivalio Visagino Country Centras in...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded $510,381 under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) federal grant to support the world premiere production of the opera Poppaea by American composer Michael Hersch and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann. The Musikverein "Wien Modern" organization in Austria will produce the opera at the Festival Wien Modern from October 30 to November 30, 2021. The Public Diplomacy Programs aim to inform and influence...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $372,250 Project Grant to the Baltimore Choral Arts Society Inc. to support a concert by Baltimore Choral Arts Society singers and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Konzertaus in Vienna, Austria on October 22, 2022. The concert delivers products and services that advance the goals of the agency's Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) federal grant program by informing and influencing foreign publics in Austria...

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded a $1,129,355 Project Grant to the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival Charitable Trust through the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to host two U.S.-based authors, Jason Reynolds and Colson Whitehead, and a reception at the 2023 Auckland Writers Festival from May 16-21. The Trust will deliver cultural diplomacy and inform/influence New Zealand publics by bringing the two acclaimed American authors to...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $275,320 project grant to CEC Artslink Inc. under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) federal grant program. The grant will support ART PROSPECT, a project bringing together U.S. and Russian artists to explore their respective nations' complicated histories through two intensive creative residencies in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan from October 2022 to December 2023. The project aims to advance U.S. foreign policy goals...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $370,000 Project Grant to support the first extensive solo exhibition of works by renowned U.S. artist Jordan Wolfson at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria. The grant was awarded on July 1, 2022 under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to advance national interests and enhance relationships between the U.S. and other countries by informing and influencing foreign publics. The funding will support the exhibition of...