NEA National Heritage Fellowship Nomination Form

To submit a complete nomination, there are two steps:

Step 1: Complete and submit the form below by Tuesday, May 27, 2025, by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time.

Step 2: Submit nomination work samples and letters of support to the Applicant Portal, from Friday, May 30, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time to Friday, June 6, 2025, by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time. (Your user ID and password to the Applicant Portal will be emailed to you on May 30, 2025.)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

  • A nominee must be a living U.S. citizen or permanent resident of the United States.
  • Nominations must be submitted in English.
  • Late, ineligible, and incomplete nominations will not be reviewed.
  • Exceptions to the deadline will be considered only for technical malfunctions that are the result of failures on the part of NEA systems, as determined by the NEA. To be considered for this exception, you must provide documentation of a NEA systems failure that prevented your submission by the deadline.
  • In the event of a major emergency (e.g., a hurricane or NEA systems technological failure), the NEA Chair may adjust application deadlines for affected nominations. If a deadline is extended for any reason, an announcement will be posted on our website.
  • Do not seek information on the status of your nomination before June 2026.

Step 1 is a web form and it does not have all the features of a word processing program (i.e., you cannot format your text with bold or italics, and you cannot use the spelling check feature). Use quotation marks or capital letters to set off titles of works or productions. We suggest writing your answers in your preferred word processing program and then copying and pasting your answers into the boxes provided in this webform.

Take a screenshot of the confirmation page after submitting your nomination to document your submission.

Nominee Information

Enter the name of the individual or group you are nominating:

*Nominations may be for an individual or for a group of individuals (e.g., a duo, but not an incorporated organization).

or

If known, provide your nominee’s contact information:

Preferred Telephone Numbers:

Next, use the boxes below to tell us about your nominee.

Briefly describe the nominee's artistic genre form or cultural tradition and contributions to the folk and traditional arts. If you are submitting your nominee for a Bess Lomax Hawes Fellowship, indicate it here and briefly describe how this individual has fostered excellence, vitality, and public appreciation of traditional arts and artists.

Please use the following boxes to attach your nomination statement/letter and biographical information about the nominee. The size limit for each attachment is 1 MB (megabyte). (See the guidelines for instructions.)

One file only.
1 MB limit.
Allowed types: pdf.
One file only.
1 MB limit.
Allowed types: pdf.

Required Nominator Information

Provide your name and contact information.

Preferred Telephone Numbers:

If you have any questions, please contact:
Email: heritage@arts.gov

Privacy Act

The following notice is furnished in accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a.

This information is solicited under the authority of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, 20 U.S.C. 951 et seq. and is primarily used for the purpose of application review. Personal data, such as home address or personal cell phone number may not be released, either in entirety or in part, as exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Failure to provide the requested information could result in rejection of your application.

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The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated at an average of 1 hour per response including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. We welcome any suggestions that you might have on improving the guidelines and making them as easy to use as possible. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to: webmgr@arts.gov, attention: Reporting Burden. Note: Applicants are not required to respond to the collection of information unless it displays a currently valid U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number.

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