The National Endowment for the Arts is announcing two programs to distribute American Rescue Plan funds. These programs are open to nonprofit arts and culture organizations and local arts agencies, regardless of whether they have received NEA funding...
The National Endowment for the Arts announces the 2021 NEA National Heritage Fellows, recipients of the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts, who will be featured in a film that will debut on November 17, 2021 on arts.gov.
The National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with Arts Midwest, is pleased to announce 61 grants totaling $1,070,000 to support NEA Big Read projects in 2021-2022. These grants, managed by Arts Midwest, will support dynamic community reading p...
Congratulations to Rahele Megosha from South Dakota, who was named the 2021 Poetry Out Loud National Champion during the May 27 national finals. Kendall Grimes from Tennessee, was announced as the second-place winner, and Soojin Park from Alabama, ca...
President Biden's FY 2022 budget provides a significant and historic increase to the NEA’s budget, demonstrating the president’s trust and belief in the agency's mission to provide equitable access to the arts in all communities throughout the countr...
Since the killing of George Floyd that took place on this date one year ago, there has been a chorus of artists and creators raising up issues of equity, access, and systemic racism. Through these stories we can consider, as individuals and a nation,...
In its ongoing support of rural America, the National Endowment for the Arts announces the four workshop communities and 15 communities taking part in the peer learning cohort for this year Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design™.
For its second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2021, the National Endowment for the Arts announces more than $88 million in recommended grants to organizations in all 50 states and jurisdictions.
Out of 55 state and jurisdictional champions who competed in the national semifinals, nine high school students are advancing to the Poetry Out Loud national finals, which will be webcast on Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. ET at arts.gov/poetry-o...
The National Endowment for the Arts is pleased to share the 2021 winners of the Poetry Ourselves competition, a second competition open to the Poetry Out Loud state and jurisdictional champions to highlight their original poetry.
The National Endowment for the Arts announces the first awards from the American Rescue Plan to state, jurisdictional, and regional arts organizations to support their funding programs.
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