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Celebrate #JazzAppreciation Month with the 2019 #NEAJazz Masters!

April 9, 2020
Visit the National Endowment for the Arts YouTube channel to watch the 2019 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert and browse our complete library of Jazz Master videos. 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Abdullah Ibrahim. Photo by Marina Umari "This is what jazz music does: it gives you...
two older Latina women wearing embroidered capes sing while a mariachi band plays in the background

Celebrate Women's History Month with National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows

March 19, 2020
At a time when social distancing, quarantine, and isolation are the guidewords for our daily lives, it feels even more important to focus on the ways in which we can connect. In that spirit—and in the spirit of Women's History Month—we'd like to celebrate five extraordinary women who have been...
a group of diverse people on a lit stage

#FlashbackFriday: 2019 NEA National Heritage Concert

October 18, 2019
On Friday, September 20, 2019, the National Endowment for the Arts honored the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows at a free concert, featuring music, demonstrations, and conversations with the honorees and other special guests. For #FlashbackFriday, here's a look back at the concert. Video of 2019...
a group of diverse people on a lit stage

#ThrowbackThursday: 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellowships Concert

September 26, 2019
"To witness the diversity of our nation brought to life through the arts is nothing short of magical. It serves as a reminder of the power the arts have, to bridge our differences + to connect us as neighbors, as humans + as Americans." — Tony Chauveaux, National Endowment for the Arts Deputy...
collage of photos of nine 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows

Celebrate the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows!

September 20, 2019
We're excited to celebrate the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows tonight with a concert event featuring music, demonstrations, and conversations with the National Heritage Fellows and other special guests. The evening will be hosted by Queen Nur, storyteller, teaching artist, and director of the...
author Ray Bradbury posing with a cat

#FlashbackFriday: For the NEA Big Read, Ray Bradbury Ruminates on the Power of Libraries and Becoming a Writer

August 9, 2019
Did you know that Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was one of the original books for the NEA Big Read ? In this short film— created expressly for the program—Bradbury, who received the National Medal of Arts in 2004, enthuses about his enduring love of libraries, reveals how an encounter with a...

Celebrate African American Music Appreciation Month with NEA National Heritage Fellows!

June 21, 2019
At the National Endowment for the Arts, we look forward to June, when we can share our appreciation of African-American music with the rest of the world during African-American Music Appreciation Month. While the agency has championed jazz for decades, especially with its NEA Jazz Masters program,...
Stanley Crouch at a podium

Celebrate 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Stanley Crouch!

April 12, 2019
“Thank you very much for this award, thank you for all of the time spent in nightclubs, concert halls, and the like in pursuit of the essence of jazz, which is the feeling itself. As a young man many years ago, I had the opportunity to hear the Coltrane quartet, sometimes from close up and...
Abdullah Ibrahim

Celebrate 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Abdullah Ibrahim!

April 11, 2019
"This is what jazz music does: it gives you that insight into yourself because you constantly challenge yourself.... [J...
Composer Maria Schnedier against a background of music notation paper

Celebrate 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Maria Schneider!

April 10, 2019
“In this increasingly polarized world of social tensions, the antidote to everything that’s gone haywire may be found in jazz—our nation’s own extraordinary art form that has at its heart: listening, presence, communication, collaboration, and self-expression. What a blessing for all of us that the...

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