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Heritage Fellow Modesto Cepeda on stage with male and female dancers in traditional white Puerto Rican costumes

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month!

October 9, 2019
De Gloria Estefan a Selena, de Rudolfo Anaya a Julia Alvarez, de Richard Serra a Luis Jiménez y muchos otros, el impacto en el arte y la cultura americanas de los artistas estadounidenses de ascendencia latina es incalculable. Es por esta razón que en 1968, tan solo tres años después de establecer...
quote by Nilo Cruz

#TuesdayThought: Nilo Cruz

October 8, 2019
"I think a writer is like an exile in some ways, because we look at things from the outside, from boundaries. It allows us to have certain kinds of perspectives, and not just to report on something the way that a journalist does." — Nilo Cruz Read our Art Talk with playwright Nilo Cruz here .
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NEA Arts Magazine Sneak Peek!

October 4, 2019
In the forthcoming issue of NEA Arts magazine, we take a look at how the National Endowment for the Arts brings the arts to more Americans through special projects and initatives. This issue—Expanding the Reach of the Arts—will spotlight the work the agency does in the area of accessibility, how we...
headshot of Anna Deeny Morales

#ThrowbackThursday: Talking Music & Miracles with NEA Translation Fellow Anna Deeny Morales

October 3, 2019
Anna Deeny Morales came to literary translation through fortuitous circumstances that would change the course of her career. While studying the relationship between 20th-century U.S. and Latin American poets for her dissertation, she was invited by faculty to translate several poems by Chilean poet...
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Ten-ish Podcasts to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

October 2, 2019
To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re sharing ten podcasts (really 11; our podcast with Lin-Manuel Miranda has two parts) that will introduce you to men and women whose personal stories and artwork reflect the Latino experience in the United States. Through their art, they have given voice to...
quote by Sandra Cisneros

#TuesdayMotivation: Sandra Cisneros

October 1, 2019
"Writing allows us to transform what has happened to us and to fight back against what's hurting us. While not everyone is an author, everyone is a writer and I think that the process of writing is deeply spiritual and liberatory." — Sandra Cisneros Did you know that Sandra Cisneros was a National...
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Crossing Cultures through Literature with the Lit & Luz Festival

September 27, 2019
The translation rate for literature is notoriously low in the United States—of the hundreds of thousands of books published in this country every year, only about 3 percent are works in translation. In 2013, these statistics prompted MAKE: A Literary Magazine to devote an entire issue of its...
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...
Life-size lowrider car piñata hanging in a museum

Art Talk with Justin Favela

September 25, 2019
At first glance, Justin Favela ’s large-scale installations are joyous and exuberant. Each one is formed from hundreds of pieces of cut paper, transforming life-size sculptures and murals of lowriders, desert landscapes, and recreations of well-known artworks into what look like colossal piñatas...
quote by Ada Limon

Hispanic Heritage Month Notable Quotable: Ada Limón

September 24, 2019
"Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional. Moving away from 'useful' doesn't mean it isn't necessary. You can still need poetry while also needing money or food or physical health." — Ada...

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