Live Webcast of Summit on Arts and Aging

Final Contest for the Title of National Poetry Out Loud Champion on April 29, 2015

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Poetry Out Loud 2015 National Finals

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Live Webcast of NEA National Council on the Arts Meeting

NEA National Council on the Arts Meeting

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NEA Chairman Jane Chu presiding over the October 2014 National Council on the Arts meeting (with NCA member María López De León to her right). Photo by Kathy Plowitz-Worden

Poetry Out Loud Celebrates its 10th Year at National Finals, April 28-29, 2015

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2015 NEA Jazz Masters Celebrated at Free Concert

Headshots of 2015 NEA Jazz Masters and headshot of Christian McBride

Photo of Carla Bley by D D Rider; photo of Joe Segal by Marc PoKempner; photo of George Coleman by Ray Foley; photo of Charles Lloyd by D. Darr; and photo of Christian McBride by Anna Webber.

$1 Million in New Grant Funding Available to Celebrate the Arts and National Parks

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In 2001, BANDALOOP performed “Crossing,” a site-specific mountain performance at Yosemite National Park, on Wild Cat Point above the Tuolumne River.  Credit: BANDALOOP / Corey Rich Productions.

NEA Director of Folk and Traditional Arts Barry Bergey to Retire

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NEA Director of Folk and Traditional Arts Barry Bergey with 2006 National Heritage Fellow Mavis Staples. Photo by Tom Pich