In 2026, NESA was awarded a $5000 grant to support community sculpture programming. With the grant, NESA teaching artists were paid for their time, travel, and materials to create and host sculpture-based art-making workshops for a variety of underserved groups in the community. Thank you to NESA grant writer, Christina Speidel and VP Bayda Asbridge for their work to apply for the grant and coordinate the workshops.