President Trump to Award National Medal of Arts

Medal of Arts
The National Medal of Arts, designed by Robert Graham, and awarded by the President of the United States to individuals or groups who are deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support, and availability of the arts in the United States.

National Council on the Arts Public Meeting, Friday, October 25, 2019

A young woman sits on a piano bench holding a guitar while two men stand casually leaning on the piano

2019 Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge winner Breezy Love seated at the piano with her coaching team Patrick Sulken (left) and César Alvarez (right). Photo by Maloos Photography

National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Grant Opportunity Announced for Community Reading Programs

NEA Big Read logo and book covers.
Among the books available for communities to choose for 2020-2021 NEA Big Read projects are Circe, My Ántonia, The Essential Emily Dickinson, An American Sunrise, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter​​​​​​​.

National Endowment for the Arts Funds Design Assistance for Twenty-three Rural Communities

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A 2018 Citizens' Institute on Rural Design workshop in Valentine, Nebraska. Photo copyright P&W Photography

Join the National Endowment for the Arts at the 2019 National Book Festival

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2019 National Book Festival Poster by Marian Bantjes

National Endowment for the Arts Announces Free Events September 18 & 20, 2019 in Honor of National Heritage Fellows

Photos of the 2019 National Heritage Fellows with text reading 2019 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows.
2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows: (clockwise from top left) Dan Ansotegui (photo by Gregg Mizuta), Grant Bulltail (photo by Gary Wortman, EveryMan Productions LLC), Bob Fulcher (photo by Sarah Terpstra Hanson), Linda Goss (photo by Edwin Remsberg), James F. Jackson (photo by Adam Jahiel), Las Tesoros de San Antonio—(l-r) Blanquita “Blanca Rosa” Rodríguez and Beatriz “La Paloma del Norte” Llamas (photo courtesy of Esperanza Peace & Justice Center), Rich Smoker (photo by Edwin Remsberg), Josephine Lobato (photo by Carol S. Dass), and Balla Kouyaté (photo by Brendan Mercure Photography).

National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows

Photos of the 2019 National Heritage Fellows with text reading 2019 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows.
2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows: (clockwise from top left) Dan Ansotegui (photo by Gregg Mizuta), Grant Bulltail (photo by Gary Wortman, EveryMan Productions LLC), Bob Fulcher (photo by Sarah Terpstra Hanson), Linda Goss (photo by Edwin Remsberg), James F. Jackson (photo by Adam Jahiel), Las Tesoros de San Antonio—(l-r) Blanquita “Blanca Rosa” Rodríguez and Beatriz “La Paloma del Norte” Llamas (photo courtesy of Esperanza Peace & Justice Center), Rich Smoker (photo by Edwin Remsberg), Josephine Lobato (photo by Carol S. Dass), and Balla Kouyaté (photo by Brendan Mercure Photography).

National Endowment for the Arts Announces $1 Million in Grants to Support Community Reading Programs Nationwide

A woman sits behind a desk signing books with a crowd of people around her.
Julia Alvarez at a book signing for Universidad del Turabo, Ana G. Méndez University System’s NEA Big Read in February 2019. As part of the 2019-2020 NEA Big Read, communities in Colorado and Michigan will read Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies. Photo by Joshua Feist

National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2020 NEA Jazz Masters

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2020 NEA Jazz Masters: Bobby McFerrin (photo by Carol Friedman), Roscoe Mitchell (photo by Ken Weiss), Reggie Workman (photo by Richard Kohler), and Dorthaan Kirk (photo by David Tallacksen, courtesy of WBGO).

Final Contest for the Title of 2019 National Poetry Out Loud Champion on May 1, 2019

Photos of the top nine Poetry Out Loud finalists
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