LAF Receives NEA Art Works Grant for 2018 CSI Program

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced today that the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) is one of 52 national, regional, state, and local nonprofit organizations to receive an NEA Art Works grant in the Design category.

LAF is approved for a $25,000 grant to support the 2018 Case Study Investigation (CSI) program. CSI is a unique research collaboration that matches LAF-funded faculty-student research teams with design firms to document the benefits of exemplary high-performing landscape projects. This year, 5 teams will study 8 projects, and the NEA grant will help fund the stipends paid to the student Research Assistant on each team.

Through Art Works grants, the NEA has supported the CSI program for 6 of the last 7 years. “We are so appreciative of the NEA’s ongoing investment in this transformative program,” said LAF CEO Barbara Deutsch, FASLA. “Past participants have said that CSI changes the way they think about both design and how to represent their work. The resulting case studies elevate perceptions about landscape by showing the environmental, economic, and social value of great design.”

Art Works is the NEA’s largest funding category and supports projects that focus on the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and/or the strengthening of communities through the arts. The 936 Art Works grants awarded in this round total over $24 million. Visit the NEA website for a complete listing of projects recommended for Art Works grant support.