Master Folk and Traditional Artists Receive Top Honor

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Photo credits clockwise from top left: Ella Jenkins (photo by Alison Green), Norik Astvatsurov (photo by Troyd Geist, North Dakota Council on the Arts), Modesto Cepeda (photo by Frank Elias), Dwight Lamb (photo by David Cavins), Phil Wiggins (photo by Bibiana Huang Matheis), Anna Brown Ehlers (photo by Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (Seminole/Muskogee/Dine)), Thomas Maupin (photo by Gary Hamilton), Eva Ybarra (photo by David L. Dodd, Courtesy of Texas Folklife), and Cyril Pahinui (photo by Chelle C. Pahinui).  [Enlarge Image]

National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2018 Class of NEA Jazz Masters

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2018 NEA Jazz Masters: Dianne Reeves (photo by Jerris Madison), Todd Barkan (photo by John Abbott), Joanne Brackeen (photo by Carol Friedman), and Pat Metheny (photo by John Peden).

National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2017-2018 NEA Big Read Grants

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Staten Island OutLOUD hosts a community conversation as part of their 2016 NEA Big Read activities. Staten Island OutLOUD will receive a 2017-18 NEA Big Read grant for a program on True Grit. Photo by Eileen Monreale, courtesy of Staten Island OutLOUD  

Blue Star Museums Offers Free Admission for Eighth Year and 2017 Summer

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A family from Dyess AFB visits an exhibition on view at the Grace Museum in Abilene, Texas, a Blue Star Museum. Photo courtesy of the Grace Museum

Final Contest for the Title of National Poetry Out Loud Champion on April 26, 2017

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Photos by James Kegley

High School Students Compete for National Championship in Poetry Out Loud

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Celebrate the 2017 NEA Jazz Masters during Jazz Appreciation Month

Photos of 2017 NEA Jazz Masters
Clockwise from top right: Dee Dee Bridgewater (photo by Mark Higashino), Dick Hyman (photo by Bob Haggart Jr.), Dave Holland (photo by Ulli Gruber), Ira Gitler (photo by Frances McLaughlin-Gill), and Dr. Lonnie Smith (photo by Mathieu Bitton).

National Endowment for the Arts and United States Conference of Mayors Partner on Mayors’ Institute on City Design

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National Endowment for the Arts to Award More Than $30 Million for Arts Projects Nationwide

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An Art Works: Creativity Connects grant to Writers in the Schools in Houston, Texas, will support the creation of Writers in the Schools (WITS) Digital, in partnership with Histrionix Learning Company. Photo by Alyssa Hartgrove

Historic Healing Arts and Military Partnership Expands

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Chairman Jane Chu's sketch of the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) featuring masks created by service members who participated in the creative arts therapy program.
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