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
 

Three people stand in front of a brick wall painting a mural featuring an Earth and tall plants with a blue sky.

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.

Announcing the 2023-2024 National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Communities

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Students paint book covers during a Mural Arts Camp as part of the Pennroyal Arts Council’s 2023 NEA Big Read around Tommy Orange's There, There. Photo by Molly Campbell

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in partnership with Arts Midwest, is pleased to announce grants to 62 nonprofit organizations to hold NEA Big Read programming in 2023-2024.

National Endowment for the Arts Announces more than $760,000 in Creative Forces Community Engagement Grants
 

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Operation: Art of Valor program participants working on a glassblowing project. An NEA Creative Forces Community Engagement grant will support Morean Arts Center’s glassblowing program for veterans and their families in St. Petersburg, Florida. Photo courtesy of Morean Arts Center

The NEA is pleased to announce 34 Creative Forces® Community Engagement grant recipients totaling $764,783 that will expand the work of Creative Forces into more communities nationwide.

National Endowment for Arts Announces Second Round of Grants for FY 2023

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enVISION: Sensory Beyond Sight, an immersive interdisciplinary performance designed for low-vision and blind individuals. An NEA grant to ShaLeigh Dance Works will support enVISION: The Next Chapter. Photo by Slater Mapp, courtesy of ShaLeigh Dance Works

The NEA is pleased to announce more than $103 million in recommended grants in the second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2023.

Sreepadaarchana Munjuluri from Indiana Named 2023 Poetry Out Loud National Champion
 

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Sreepadaarchana Munjuluri, a junior at Columbus North High School, representing Indiana Humanities, is the 2023 Poetry Out Loud® National Champion.

Final Contest for 2023 Poetry Out Loud Competition on May 10, 2023

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The 2023 Poetry Out Loud National Finals will take place on Wednesday, May 10. Nine high school students will match their skills in reciting classic and contemporary poetry in a contest for the title of 2023 Poetry Out Loud National Champion and a $20,000 award.

Museums Nationwide Provide Free Admission to Military Families This Summer

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Blue Star Museums offer free admission to military families again this summer. Program begins May 20, 2023.

President Biden Announces President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities Members
 

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Today, President Biden announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH), an advisory body to the president on cultural policy.
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