Press Release Jun 13, 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Leaders Visit Ohio June 27-28 Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD, and members of the National Council on the Arts, will gather in Ohio June 27-28, 2024, for the council’s summer meeting.
Press Release Jun 11, 2024 Announcing the Program Mentors and Cast for Challenge Accepted! A Concert Presenting the Winners of the Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge Musical theater fans will have the chance to see the fully orchestrated arrangements of the winning songs from the 2023-2024 Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge, performed live by Broadway artists during a special concert on June 17 at 7 p.m. ET.
Press Release Jun 05, 2024 Announcing the 2024-2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Communities The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in partnership with Arts Midwest, is pleased to announce grants to 62 nonprofit organizations for NEA Big Read programming in 2024-2025.
Press Release May 30, 2024 Creative Forces Announces Grants for Arts Engagement Projects to Support Military-Connected People
Press Release May 23, 2024 Readout of Federal Interagency Working Group on Arts, Health, and Civic Infrastructure Meeting On Thursday, May 16, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra participated in the second meeting of the Federal Interagency Working Group on Arts, Health, and Civic Infrastructure. Secretary Becerra and Chair of the...
Press Release May 21, 2024 Announcing the Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge Winners The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) announced today the winners of the 2023-2024 Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge, an opportunity for high school students to develop and showcase musical com...
Press Release May 15, 2024 National Endowment for Arts Announces Second Round of Grants for FY 2024 For its second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2024, the NEA is pleased to announce more than $110 million in recommended grants in all 50 states and U.S. jurisdictions.
Press Release May 09, 2024 Museums Nationwide Provide Free Admission to Military Families This Summer Blue Star Museums begins May 18 and provides free admission to military families again this summer
Press Release May 06, 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Premieres Tribute Film Series about National Heritage Fellows The Story of Our Heritage: Celebrate the extraordinary artists who shape America's cultural heritage
Press Release May 03, 2024 Niveah Glover from Florida Named 2024 Poetry Out Loud National Champion The NEA and the Poetry Foundation are pleased to share that Niveah Glover, a 12th-grade student at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, Florida, is the 2024 Poetry Out Loud® National Champion.
Press Release May 02, 2024 Final Contest for 2024 Poetry Out Loud Competition on May 2, 2024 Out of a field of 55 state and jurisdictional champions, nine high school students are advancing to the 2024 Poetry Out Loud National Finals on May 2.
Press Release Apr 04, 2024 High School Students from Across Nation to Compete in Poetry Out Loud National Finals The 2024 Poetry Out Loud® National Finals will be held in Washington, DC, May 1-2, bringing together high school students from across the nation to the capital for an exciting poetry recitation competition, where one student will win the title of nat...
Press Release Apr 02, 2024 New Updates on the 2024 NEA Jazz Masters Events The National Endowment for the Arts and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts are pleased to announce new details about the upcoming events in honor of the 2024 NEA Jazz Masters—Gary Bartz, Terence Blanchard, Willard Jenkins, and Amina Claud...
Press Release Mar 25, 2024 Arts & Cultural Sector Hit All-Time High in 2022 Value Added to U.S. Economy The Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA), a product of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) that tracks the annual economic value of arts and cultural production from 35 industries—incl...
Press Release Mar 21, 2024 New Resource from the NEA Will Monitor the Health and Vitality of the Arts in the U.S. On April 2, 2024, the National Endowment for the Arts will launch the Arts Indicators Project. To mark the launch, the NEA will host a public webinar on April 2 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. ET that will introduce the project alongside panel discussions on the...
Press Release Mar 19, 2024 Meeting of the National Council on the Arts on March 27, 2024, in Washington, DC The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will host the public session of the 212th National Council on the Arts meeting on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. ET. Following opening remarks from Chair Jackson, the meeting will feature two panel ...
Press Release Mar 11, 2024 Statement by the National Endowment for the Arts on the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget The Biden-Harris Administration today released the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2025.
Press Release Feb 28, 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellows Announcing the 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellows, recipients of our nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
Press Release Feb 21, 2024 2024 NEA Jazz Masters to be Celebrated at Free Events in Washington, DC The National Endowment for the Arts, in collaboration with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, will celebrate the 2024 NEA Jazz Masters at a series of public events April 11-13, 2024, in Washington, DC, culminating in a free tribute c...
Press Release Jan 31, 2024 Groundbreaking Arts Summit Propels National Conversation on Healing, Bridging, and Thriving The White House Domestic Policy Council and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) co-hosted a first-of-its-kind convening to share insights and explore opportunities for arts organizations and artists to contribute to health and well-being of individ...
Press Release Jan 24, 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Announces More Than $32 Million in Arts Funding to Organizations Nationwide The NEA is pleased to announce the first round of grants for FY24 to organizations in all 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico and Literature Fellowships for creative writing and translation.
Press Release Jan 19, 2024 National Arts Summit Explores the Transformative Power of Culture in Our Communities "Healing, Bridging, Thriving: A Summit on Arts and Culture in our Communities," will take place on Tuesday, January 30, 2024, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. E.T. in Washington, D.C. and will be streamed live at arts.gov.