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National Endowment for the Arts Announces Free Events September 18 & 20, 2019 in Honor of National Heritage Fellows

August 14, 2019

Washington, DC —This September, two free events will celebrate the 2019 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows—recipients of our nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. The awards ceremony on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 is an opportunity to...

two women play a taiko drum standing on either side of it

United States and Japan Collaborate on Artistic Projects to Present in Tokyo During Summer 2020

August 7, 2019

Washington, DC —The Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC) and the National Endowment for the Arts are pleased to announce the selection of five artistic teams for the 2019-2020 US/Japan Creative Artists Fellowship Program . Each team of artists from the United States...

Toni Morrison reading applications at a meeting.

National Endowment for the Arts Statement on the Death of Toni Morrison

August 6, 2019

It is with great sadness that the National Endowment for the Arts acknowledges the death of writer Toni Morrison, one of the world’s best-known and most successful novelists. From 1980-1987, Morrison was a member of the National Council on the Arts, the Arts Endowment’s advisory...