Resources Available for Rural Communities Facing Design Challenges

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Residents view the preliminary MacIntyre Park master plan vision and student projects during a tailgate event for the 2016 Thomasville, Georgia CIRD Workshop. Photo by Angela Moreno-Long, Project for Public Spaces 

NEA Fellowships to Support Creative Writers and Literary Translators Total $1.2 Million

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View full infographic on NEA and literature here.

Four New Books Added to #NEABigRead Library

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Four new titles are being added to the NEA Big Read for 2018-19.

Update on National Endowment for the Arts Support for Arts and Cultural Communities Affected by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria

Statement on Hurricane Harvey

NEA Literature Fellows in Conversation at the 2017 National Book Festival

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2017 National Book Festival poster by illustrator Roz Chast.

National Endowment for the Arts to Convene Clinical Research Summit for Treatments of PTSD and TBI

Free Events Celebrate Our Nation’s Master Folk and Traditional Artists

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).