NEA Selects Jacquie Jones to be Media Arts Director

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 12:00

NEA Literary Translation Fellowships Named

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 12:00

Cover of "The Art of Empathy' and full page spread — 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

Tue, 07/22/2014 - 12:00

Medal of Arts — 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

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 12:00

Word cloud — 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

Thu, 06/19/2014 - 12:00

Horace Silver — NEA Jazz Master Horace Silver. Photo by Tom Pich

NEA Statement on the Death of Ruby Dee

Fri, 06/13/2014 - 12:00

Ruby Dee on her couch holding up a copy of Ernest Gaines A Lesson Before Dying — 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

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 12:00

Photo of Jane Chu — 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

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 12:00

A teaching artist works with three students learning the violin. — 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

Statement on the Death of NEA National Heritage Fellow Eppie Archuleta

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 12:00

Eppie Archuleta in her studio — Portrait of NEA National Heritage Fellow Eppie Archuleta by Tom Pich

Statement from the National Endowment for the Arts on the Death of 2002 NEA National Heritage Fellow Bob McQuillen

Wed, 02/05/2014 - 12:00

Bob McQuillen — NEA National Heritage Fellow Bob McQuillen. Photo by Tom Pich

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