It is with great sadness that the National Endowment for the Arts acknowledges the passing of former National Council on the Arts member and National Medal of Arts recipient James Earl Jones.

The 2024-2025 school year marks the 20th anniversary of Poetry Out Loud®, an arts education program and dynamic poetry recitation competition for high school students that lifts poetry off the page, creating community and connection.

This September in Washington, DC, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will hold free events to celebrate ten extraordinary artists who shape America’s cultural heritage—the 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellows, recipients of our nation’s highest ...

The Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in partnership with the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT), is now accepting submissions for the 2024-25 program, an opportunity for high ...

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.

Blue Star Museums begins May 18 and provides free admission to military families again this summer

The Story of Our Heritage: Celebrate the extraordinary artists who shape America's cultural heritage

NEA Statement on the Death of 2012 Heritage Fellow Paul Bergren

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 ...

Announcing the 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellows, recipients of our nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.

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.

It is with great sadness that the National Endowment for the Arts acknowledges the passing of Norik Astvatsaturov, recipient of a 2017 NEA National Heritage Fellowship.

Applications are now open for grants to support NEA Big Read projects between September 2024 and June 2025. An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read supports community reading progr...

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is pleased to announce Michelle Hoffmann as the new director of Arts Education.

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 more than $103 million in recommended grants in the second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2023.

Sreepadaarchana Munjuluri, a junior at Columbus North High School, representing Indiana Humanities, is the 2023 Poetry Out Loud® National Champion.

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.