The Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) and the National Endowment fot the Arts (NEA) solicit proposals for six entities to design, manage, and engage in the evaluation of one NEA Teacher Institute each. The project requires that the curricula developed at the Institutes be deployed in a grade K-12 school setting, its impact evaluated and the institute and deployment process selectively documented. The institutes must be located in the 13 western states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming). Applications from entities in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont are eligible to apply for grants administered by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Please contact the Council at 617-727-3668 for information. Application for this project is open to 501-(c)-3 organizations or their equivalent. Each awardee will receive $40,000 to support a single Institute and these funds must be matched on a one-to-one cash or cash and in-kind basis. The Institutes are to be conducted in the summer of 2005. The deployment and evaluation of the curricula designed at each Institute must be completed by December 1, 2005.