National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2023 NEA National Heritage Fellows

A collage of photos showing the nine 2023 NEA National Heritage Fellows

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

The NEA is pleased to announce this year’s NEA National Heritage Fellows, recipients of our nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.

2023 NEA Jazz Masters Honored at Free Events

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2023 NEA Jazz Masters (clockwise from top right): Regina Carter (photo by Jeff Dunn), Sue Mingus (Photo courtesy Mingus Archives), Kenny Garrett (photo by Jimmy Katz), Louis Hayes (photo by Janette Beckman)

In honor of the 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters—Regina Carter, Kenny Garrett, Louis Hayes, and Sue Mingus—the NEA is collaborating with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on a series of free events March 30-April 1 that will give audiences opportunities to experience the honorees’ music, stories, and knowledge

National Endowment for the Arts Announces First Round of Fiscal Year 2023 Grants
 

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Roy Spight demonstrates African American drum making at Fort Benjamin Harrison State Park. An NEA grant to Trustees of Indiana University in Bloomington on behalf of Traditional Arts Indiana will support folk arts programs focused on serving older adults. Photo courtesy of Traditional Arts Indiana

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is pleased to announce the first round of recommended awards for fiscal year 2023, with more than $34 million in funding to support the arts nationwide.

National Endowment for the Arts Announces Ascala Tsegaye Sisk as Senior Deputy Chair

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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is pleased to announce that Ascala Tsegaye Sisk has been appointed as senior deputy chair.

Smithsonian’s Tsione Wolde-Michael Tapped to Lead President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
 

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Tsione Wolde-Michael, executive director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH)

Tsione Wolde-Michael has been named Executive Director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH).

NEA 2023 Grant Opportunities Now Available

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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is pleased to announce that grant guidelines and application materials are now available for Challenge America and Grants for Arts Projects (GAP). These grants to organizations support specific projects in any part of the nation’s 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. jurisdictions.

Applications Open for Creative Forces Community Engagement Grants

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First Veteran Artist-in-Residence Mark Oldland and Frontline Arts Paper Program Manager Ron Erickson pulling oversized 30”x40” sheets of Mark’s USCG Dress Blue uniform "Trop" Shirts rag pulp in the parking lot at Frontline Arts in Branchburg, NJ. These sheets will be used for a freeform pulp spray triptych piece called “Bering Sea Puddle Jump.” Mark was an E-5 2nd Class Petty Officer in the US Coast Guard. Ron was a L/Cpl. E-3 in the Marines. Photo by James Teichman 

Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant applications now open to support arts programming for military-connected individuals

Celebrate the 2022 NEA National Heritage Fellows in a Documentary Film
 

A collage of ten people highlighted in boxes representing different art forms promoting Roots of American Culture, a film premiering November 17, 2022 at 8pm Eastern time on arts.gov.

Photos by Hypothetical

Roots of American Culture: A Cross-Country Visit with Living Treasures of the Folk and Traditional Arts will premiere Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 8pm ET on arts.gov.

Meeting of the National Council on the Arts on October 28, 2022, in Washington, DC

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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will host the public session of the 208th National Council on the Arts meeting on Friday, October 28, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. ET.

Applications Now Open for NEA Big Read Grants

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Applications are now open for grants to support NEA Big Read projects between September 2023 and June 2024. An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read supports community reading programs each designed around a single NEA Big Read book selection with the goal of inspiring meaningful conversations, artistic responses, and new discoveries and connections in each community.
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