The National Endowment for the Arts today announced the 2024 recipients of NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships—Gary Bartz, Terence Blanchard, Amina Claudine Myers, and Willard Jenkins, recipient of the 2024 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for Jazz...
The National Endowment for the Arts is pleased to announce the 25 towns and tribal communities taking part in this year’s Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design™ (CIRD), continuing the agency’s longstanding commitment to rural America.
The National Council on the Arts, the advisory body for the National Endowment for the Arts, will gather in New Orleans, Louisiana, for its summer meeting, June 21-23, 2023. While in New Orleans, the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, Dr. ...
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in partnership with Arts Midwest, is pleased to announce grants to 62 nonprofit organizations to hold NEA Big Read programming in 2023-2024.
The NEA is pleased to announce 34 Creative Forces® Community Engagement grant recipients totaling $764,783 that will expand the work of Creative Forces into more communities nationwide.
The 2023 Poetry Out Loud National Finals will take place on Wednesday, May 10. Nine high school students will match their skills in reciting classic and contemporary poetry in a contest for the title of 2023 Poetry Out Loud National Champion and a $2...
It is with great sadness that the National Endowment for the Arts acknowledges the death of record producer and label founder Chris Strachwitz, recipient of the first Bess Lomax Hawes National Heritage Fellowship in 2000.
It is with great sadness that the National Endowment for the Arts acknowledges the passing of pianist and composer Ahmad Jamal, recipient of a 1994 NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship, the nation’s highest honor in jazz.
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