$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

NEA Selects Jacquie Jones to be Media Arts Director

NEA Literary Translation Fellowships Named

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The Art of Empathy: Celebrating Literature in Translation brings together essays by 19 translators and individuals who help to make translated works available. 

President Obama to Award 2013 National Medals of Arts

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The National Medal of Arts, designed by Robert Graham, and awarded by the President of the United States to individuals or groups who are deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support, and availability of the arts in the United States.

NEA Announces Lifetime Honors Recipients

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Through a lifetime of creativity, hard work, and devotion these 13 individuals and groups gain master status as NEA National Heritage Fellows and Jazz Masters.  Enlarge

Statement on the Death of NEA Jazz Master Horace Silver

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NEA Jazz Master Horace Silver. Photo by Tom Pich

NEA Statement on the Death of Ruby Dee

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Ruby Dee, recipient of a 1995 National Medal of Arts. Photo by Adam Kampe

Jane Chu Confirmed as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts

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Photo courtesy of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

National Endowment for the Arts to Award More Than $74 Million to U.S. Nonprofits

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Community Teaching Artist Emmanuel Soto works with students as part of San Diego Youth Symphony's Community Opus Project, which is recommended for an NEA Art Works grant. Photo courtesy of San Diego Youth Symphony
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