T. Lang Earns National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Arts Projects Award
T. Lang has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts for a Grants for Arts Projects award.
The NEA will support Out From the Deep: A Meditation for Them Turners, a live immersive performance that will debut Summer 2024. This work holds significance to her company as Mary and Hayes Turner’s immense legacy on love is to be cherished, and it will be translated physically live and in augmented reality.
Lang holds a bachelor’s degree in performance and choreography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a master’s degree in performance and choreography from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
She teaches several courses including Dance and Performance, Intermediate Modern Dance Technique, Dance Improvisation and Choreography II.
Lang can provide perspective on the following topics: dance, choreography and performance through the lens of Black feminism.
About the Grants for the Arts Project
Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) provides expansive funding opportunities to strengthen the nation’s arts and culture ecosystem.
Through project-based funding, the program supports opportunities for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector.
We welcome applications from a variety of eligible organizations, including first-time applicants; from organizations serving rural, urban, suburban, and tribal communities of all sizes; and from organizations with small, medium, or large operating budgets.
We fund arts projects in the following disciplines: Artist Communities, Arts Education, Dance, Design, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Media Arts, Museums, Music, Musical Theater, Opera, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater, and Visual Arts.