Students from ACIT Seattle’s Tabla camp (Photo from ACIT Seattle)
Last month, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) recently announced a $10,000 Art Works award to the Anindo Chatterjee Institute of Tabla Seattle (ACIT Seattle), a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting tabla drumming and Hindustani music through educational programs, concerts and classes.
The funding will help to support ACIT’s 2016 Access to Ustads Project, an effort to bring four Indian maestros to western Washington for public performances and to provide accompanying educational workshops and lectures.
ACIT Seattle is one of a 64 recipients nationwide who were awarded $1.3 million in art works grants in the folk and traditional category by the NEA. (end)