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The NEA National Heritage Fellowships recognize the recipients' artistic excellence and support their continuing contributions to our nation's traditional arts heritage.

Watch the 2017 National Heritage Fellowships Concert webcast archive.

Folk and Traditional Arts Motion Graphic

NEA National Heritage Fellows Fact Sheet

How to make a nomination webinar archive (6/7/18)

Profile materials for 1982-2007 NEA National Heritage Fellow biographies courtesy of Documentary Arts. Use of some photographs courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives & Collections.

News

National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2018 National Heritage Fellows

National Endowment for the Arts Statement on the Death of Clarence Fountain

National Endowment for the Arts Statement on the Death of Julio Negrón-Rivera

National Endowment for the Arts Statement on the Death of Richard Ho'opi'i, 1996 NEA National Heritage Fellow

Features

Congratulations to the 2018 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows

Celebrating #APAHM and NEA National Heritage Fellows!

Publications

2018 Guide to the National Endowment for the Arts

The 2018 NEA Guide provides details on the programs and activities that the NEA supports, as well as funding deadlines for our various grants. Included is information on Grants for...

NEA National Heritage Fellowships 30th Anniversary

Profiles of many of the NEA National Heritage Fellowship recipients from 1982 to 2011. In all, 80 Fellows are profiled, including the 12 Bess Lomax Hawes Award recipients. Also included...

Video

NEA National Heritage Tribute Video: Thomas Maupin

NEA National Heritage Tribute Video: Thomas Maupin

NEA National Heritage Tribute Video: Thomas Maupin

Podcasts

Artemio Posadas

2016 Bess Lomax Hawes NEA National Heritage Fellow

Photos

Portraits by Tom Pich

Canray Fontenot 1986. Photo by Tom Pich

The host and a group of seven men and women line up on stage to give a final bow at the end of the concert. There are three musicians playing behind the group in the background.

2017 NEA National Heritage Fellowships Concert