In Boulder County, both Motus Theater and Turning the Wheel Productions Inc. lost their federal funding. When the news of the NEA termination broke, Motus had just finished a new application for the next NEA funding cycle in April. “He tried to kill the NEA the day he rescinded our grant,” Motus Artistic Executive Director Kirsten Wilson says. “The NEA is small — just $207 million annually,” says Charlotte LaSasso, executive director of the Boulder County Arts Alliance. Even those who received their NEA funding felt rattled.