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National Endowment for the Arts Releases Latest Survey of Public Participation in the Arts

January 22, 2020
Washington, DC — The National Endowment for the Arts today released the full results from the nation’s largest, most representative survey of adult participation in the arts. The new Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) records the different ways that American...
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National Endowment for the Arts Announces Literature Fellowship Grant Recipients

January 16, 2020
Washington, DC—The National Endowment for the Arts announced today a total of $1.2 million in fellowships to creative writers and translators, supporting both the development of new works of American literature and the translation into English of literary prose, poetry, and...
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National Endowment for the Arts Announces Arts Project Grants in All 50 States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico

January 15, 2020
Washington, DC —Chairman Mary Anne Carter announced today that organizations in every state in the nation, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, will receive federal funding for arts projects from the National Endowment for the Arts in this round of fiscal year...
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