Additional Resources

These resources are associated with the Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development:

  • Online Directory of Federal Research Funding Opportunities: A list of relevant grant-making activities or announcements from government entities represented on the Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development.”

  • Arts Section of Early Childhood Research Quarterly: Co-edited by the NEA’s Melissa Menzer and George Mason University’s Adam Winsler, these papers appeared in the fourth-quarter 2018 issue of this peer-reviewed journal.

  • Sound Health: Archived public performances and presentations from events connected to Sound Health, an initiative of the John F. Kennedy Performing Center for the Performing Arts, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health, in association with the National Endowment  for the Arts.

  • National Academies consensus study: Cosponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, this report examines the benefits of integrating the arts and humanities with STEM and medicine in higher education.

  • Research: Art Works Study Findings: Working papers, publications, and presentations that so far have resulted from NEA Research: Art Works grant funding, sorted by topics such as health and education.

  • National Endowment for the Arts Research Labs: Transdisciplinary centers of excellence for research on the arts’ impacts in such domains as health and social or emotional well-being,  or creativity, cognition, and learning.

  • Creative Forces Research: Research publications and other resources from the Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network initiative.

  • youth.gov: The website of the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs, of which the National Endowment for the Arts is a member.