It is with great sadness that the National Endowment for the Arts acknowledges the passing of 2010 NEA Opera Honoree Martina ...

The Biden-Harris Administration today released the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2025, which includes $210.1 million for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Following historic progress ...

Washington, DC—Applications are now open for National Endowment for the Arts Big Read grants to support community-wide reading programs between September 2027 and June 2028 under the new theme, “Read ...

Philadelphia, PA—Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts Mary Anne Carter and members of the National Council on the Arts (NCA) will gather in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 28-29, 2026, ...

Author of the NEA Big Read title "Nothing to See Here" Kevin Wilson discusses the serious issues at the heart of this outrageous (and outrageously funny) novel.

Koto musician and 2024 NEA Heritage Fellow June Kuramoto shares her remarkable journey from Japan to Los Angeles, recounting the challenges of adapting to a new culture as a young child and how a ...

Browse bios, artist statements, and writing excerpts from a sample of Literature Fellows in Creative Writing (2001 – present) for a snapshot of where they were in their writing careers when they ...

Poetry Out Loud® lifts poetry off the page, creating community and connection. Through this arts education program, high school students across the country participate in a dynamic poetry recitation ...

When did science fiction first cross over from genre writing to the mainstream of American literature? Almost certainly it happened on October 19, 1953, when a young Californian named Ray Bradbury ...

This report builds on the National Endowment for the Arts’ Arts Strategies for Addressing the Opioid Crisis: Examining the Evidence published in 2020. Like the earlier report, it includes a structured ...

Welcome to Art Works, the program that goes behind the scenes with some of the nation's great artists to explore how art works. I'm your host, Josephine Reed. Taylor Branch is an author and journalist ...

This report synthesizes findings across several modes of arts participation (attending the visual and performing arts, reading literature, creating/performing art, using digital media to consume art, ...