National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Grant Opportunity Announced for Community Reading Programs
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Poetry Out Loud 2019 National Finals in Washington, DC, April 30-May 1, 2019
High School Students Nationwide to Compete in Poetry Out Loud National Finals
2018 Poetry Out Loud National Champion Janae Claxton. The 2019 Poetry Out Loud National Finals will take place April 30-May 1, 2019. Photo by James Kegley