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August 2017

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New Report Released on Sustainability of Documentary Film Field

August 2, 2017
Washington, DC —“Everyone is a stakeholder,” according to a new report about documentary film, State of the Field: A Report from the Documentary Sustainability Summit . While more documentaries are created and viewed than ever before, the field is being buffeted by ever-shifting...

June 2017

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National Council on the Arts Public Meeting, Friday, June 30, 2017

June 28, 2017
Washington, DC —The summer meeting of the National Council on the Arts takes place on Friday, June 30, 2017, from 9:00 AM to 11:30 am ET in Conference Rooms A & B at the Constitution Center, 400 7 th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20506. The meeting includes agency business as...
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Master Folk and Traditional Artists Receive Top Honor

June 20, 2017
Washington, DC — Across the United States there are traditional art forms that shape our culture and make our communities distinct, whether it’s conjunto music in Texas, old-time buckdancing in Tennessee, or Chilkat weaving in Alaska. For the past 35 years, the National...
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NEA Announces Grants to Support the Arts in Every U.S. State and Jurisdiction

June 14, 2017
Washington, DC —As the only funder in the country to support arts activities in all 50 states and five U.S. jurisdictions, the National Endowment for the Arts announces its second round of funding for FY 2017. This funding round includes partnerships with state, jurisdictional,...
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National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2018 Class of NEA Jazz Masters

June 12, 2017
Washington, DC—Joanne Brackeen, Pat Metheny, Dianne Reeves, and Todd Barkan now join the ranks of the nation’s highest honor in jazz, the NEA Jazz Masters. The 2018 NEA Jazz Master recipients were announced this evening at a DC Jazz Festival concert at the John F. Kennedy Center...

National Endowment for the Arts' Statement on the Shakespeare in the Park by the Public Theater’s Production of "Julius Caesar"

June 11, 2017
The National Endowment for the Arts makes grants to nonprofit organizations for specific projects. In the past, the New York Shakespeare Festival has received project-based NEA grants to support performances of Shakespeare in the Park by the Public Theater. However, no NEA funds...
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National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2017-2018 NEA Big Read Grants

June 8, 2017
Washington, DC —Today the National Endowment for the Arts announced seventy-five nonprofit organizations will receive grants totaling more than $1 million to host an NEA Big Read project between September 2017 and June 2018. An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts...

May 2017

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Blue Star Museums Offers Free Admission for Eighth Year

May 16, 2017
Washington, DC— NEA Chairman Jane Chu and Blue Star Families CEO Kathy Roth-Douquet announced the eighth annual launch of Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums...
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Industrial Design is Key to Growth of Manufacturing Sector

May 2, 2017
Washington, DC — Another example of the arts positively impacting business is the growing recognition among manufacturers of the value of industrial design and design thinking. To advance design as an asset for improving manufactured products and processes, the National...

April 2017

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Final Contest for the Title of National Poetry Out Loud Champion on April 26, 2017

April 26, 2017
WHAT: Nine student finalists representing high schools from Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, and South Dakota match their skills in reciting classic and contemporary poetry in a contest for the title of 2017 Poetry Out Loud...

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