NEA and White House Domestic Policy Council Host Convening on Whole-of-Government Approach to Arts and Culture 

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Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra addresses the participants in a convening to discuss the Biden-Harris Administration’s whole-of-government approach to arts and culture.

On Tuesday, October 17, 2023, in recognition of National Arts and Humanities Month, the White House Domestic Policy Council and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) co-hosted a convening to discuss the Biden-Harris Administration’s whole-of-government approach to arts and culture.

New Data Reveal How Adults Participated in the Arts During COVID-19

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A masked audience watches a performance at the Lied Center for Performing Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 2020. Photo courtesy of the Lied Center for Performing Arts at University of Nebraska.

New research reports from the National Endowment for the Arts examines the state of in-person and virtual arts participation during COVID-19.

Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network Announces Award for Clinical Study of Music Therapy and Chronic Pain in U.S. Veterans
 

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Free Events September 28-29 Celebrate NEA National Heritage Fellows

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R.L. Boyce Photo credit Rustin Gudim; Ed Eugene Carriere Photo by Dale Croes; Michael A. Cummings Photo courtesy of artist; Joe DeLeon “Little Joe” Hernández Photo by Mark Del Castillo; Roen Hufford Photo credit credit Lynn Martin Graton; Elizabeth James-Perry Photo courtesy of Elizabeth James-Perry; Wu Man Photo by David Bazemore; Nick Spitzer Photo by Rusty Costanza, courtesy of Tulane University; Luis Tapia Photo © Jack Parsons Courtesy of Luis Tapia

Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge Returns for 2023

Logo graphic of headphones and text reading National Endowment for the Arts and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge. In collaboration with Concord Theatricals and Disney Theatrical Productions
The Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, is now accepting submissions for the 2023-24 program, an opportunity for high school students to develop and showcase musical compositions that could be a part of a musical theater production.

Michelle Hoffmann Joins National Endowment for the Arts as Director of Arts Education
 

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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is pleased to announce Michelle Hoffmann as the new director of Arts Education.

Ben Stone Joins National Endowment for the Arts as Director of Design and Creative Placemaking

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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is pleased to announce Ben Stone as the new director of Design and Creative Placemaking. In this position, Stone will manage the NEA’s design and creative placemaking portfolio, including NEA initiatives the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design, and the Creative Placemaking Technical Assistance Program.

NEA Announces the 2024 Recipients of NEA Jazz Masters Honors

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The National Endowment for the Arts today announced the 2024 recipients of NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships—Gary Bartz, Terence Blanchard, Amina Claudine Myers, and Willard Jenkins, recipient of the 2024 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for Jazz Advocacy.

National Endowment for the Arts Funds 25 Rural Communities Through Citizens' Institute on Rural Design
 

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Citizens and students in Seminole, Oklahoma, joined the Seminole Arts Council to complete Seminole’s first community mural project in their Downtown District in October 2021. The Seminole Arts Council is a part of this year’s CIRD design learning cohort program, which will include a series of online peer engagement activities and interactive learning sessions that address specific design challenges in each community. Photo by Jacqi Dill, courtesy of the Seminole Arts Council

The National Endowment for the Arts is pleased to announce the 25 towns and tribal communities taking part in this year’s Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design™ (CIRD), continuing the agency’s longstanding commitment to rural America.

National Endowment for the Arts Leaders Visit New Orleans June 21 – 23

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The National Council on the Arts, the advisory body for the National Endowment for the Arts, will gather in New Orleans, Louisiana, for its summer meeting, June 21-23, 2023. While in New Orleans, the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, and council members will meet with state and local arts leaders, visit arts organizations, and participate in a public meeting on Friday, June 23 that will feature presentations by local artists and arts organizations.
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