By Brandy McDonnellThe National Endowment for the Arts has announced more than $25 million in grants across an array of artistic disciplines will be awarded to nonprofit organizations in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.The grants announced today are for specific projects and range from performances and exhibitions, to healing arts and arts education programs, to festivals and artist residencies, according to a news release.With the NEA’s first of two major grant announcements of fiscal year 2018, six Oklahoma organizations have been named the recipients of grants totaling $125,000.Four Oklahoma arts organizations will receive grants through Art Works, the NEA’s largest funding category, which 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 NEA will award 936 Art Works grants totaling more than $24 million to organizations in 49 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.In Oklahoma, Lyric Theatre is receiving $10,000 to support a program to integrate both hearing and deaf actors into musical productions.Read more on NewsOK.com