U.S. Government Cultural Mission to Cuba Announced

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Street scene, Havana. Photo by Victoria Hutter.

America’s Next Poetry Out Loud Champion Named at National Finals, May 3-4, 2016, Webcast Live

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Celebrate Jazz with the National Endowment for the Arts on April 4, 2016

Collage of the 2016 NEA National Heritage winners
Left to right: Archie Shepp (photo by Monette Berthommier), Gary Burton (photo by Bill Gallery), Wendy Oxenhorn (photo by Francesco Pini), and Pharoah Sanders (photo by Quentin Leboucher).

Arts and Cultural Production Contributed $704.2 Billion to the U.S. Economy in 2013

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NEA Releases Report on the Arts and Healthy Aging

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Arts and early childhood development focus of new NEA research

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The organization Creative Action works with students in Austin, Texas. Photo courtesy of Creative Action.

$27 Million Awarded for Arts Projects

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Jason Garcia Ignacio in Thirst, a film made in the protected desert of Wadi Rum in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The NEA's Imagine Your Parks projects announced today also combine art and nature. Photo by Paul Gordon Emerson.

Creative Arts Therapy a Useful Tool for Military Patients

On left, painting of a grounded helicopter against an orange sky, to the right, a man in camouflage.
SGT Timothy Goodrich with his painting "Day 1 or Day 365" at the "Show of Strength" event at the Pentagon.  SGT Goodrich has participated in NEA-supported creative art therapy at the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital Brain Wellness Center.  Photo by Sally Gifford.

National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Additions to the Big Read library

book covers for Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones and In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones and In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner will join the NEA Big Read library.

Recipients of Nation’s Highest Award in Jazz Announced

Headshots of four NEA Jazz Masters with NEA Jazz Masters logo
Left to right: Archie Shepp (photo by Monette Berthommier), Gary Burton (photo by Bill Gallery), Wendy Oxenhorn (photo by Francesco Pini), and Pharoah Sanders (photo by Quentin Leboucher).