National Endowment for the Arts Announces More than $12 Million in Grants to Expand Access to Arts Participation in Communities Nationwide

2024 Poetry Out Loud National Champion Niveah Glover of Florida with Maria Rosario Jackson (left), National Endowment for the Arts chair, and Michelle Boone (right), Poetry Foundation president. Photo by James Kegley
The Stanford White Triple Portal is the main entrance to the St. Bartholomew’s Church on Park Avenue. The Triple Portal, boasting three sets of spectacular bas-relief cast bronze doors and carved stone iconographic sculpture by renowned artists of the early 20th century, was the defining feature for the design and construction of the new St. Bartholomew’s Church building in 1918, heralded by architect Bertram G. Goodhue as “perhaps the most beautiful thing of its kind in America.” Over time the building has experienced deterioration from pollution and age. The Save America's Treasures grant will focus on the preservation of the Cipollino marble columns, iconographic sculpture, the bronze doors and the limestone steps that comprise the Stanford White Triple Portal. The grantee is providing $2,957,505 of matching funds. Photo by Gil Gilbert for St. Bartholomew's Conservancy, Inc.
Left-right (top): Bril Barrett, Photo by Maia Rosenfield; Fabian Debora, Photo by Eddie Ruvalcaba; Rosie Flores, Photo credit Leslie Campbell; Trimble Gilbert (Gwich'in), Photo credit Photo credit Alex Troutman of Channel Films; Todd Goings, Photo credit Kyle C. Goings for Carousel and Carvings, Inc. (bottom): Susan Hudson (Navajo/Diné), Photo courtesy of the artist; Pat Johnson, Photo by Lauren Adams Willette; June Kuramoto, Photo credit Jamie Itagaki; Sochietah Ung, Photo by Pat Jarrett Virginia Folklife Program; Zuni Olla Maidens, Photo courtesy NCTA Archives
(clockwise from top left) Photo of Marshall Allen by Ronnie Boyd, photo of Marilyn Cripsell by Michael Patrick Kelly, photo of Chucho Valdés by InnerCat Music Group, photo of Gary Giddins by Herman Leonard,