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2024 NEA Jazz Master Amina Claudine Myers performing at the Tribute Concert at
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. Photo by
Jati Lindsay

2023 NEA National Heritage Fellow Hill Country blues musician R.L. Boyce. Photo
courtesy of Hypothetical

The Theater Offensive presented Queer Purgatory at the Liberty Hotel for
Fashionably LATE Thursdays in October 2021.

2024 NEA Jazz Master Terence Blanchard performs at the 2024 NEA Jazz Masters
Tribute Concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on April
13, 2024. Photo by Jati Lindsay

Almeta Ingram-Miller leading the 2022 NEA National Heritage Fellows the
Legendary Ingramettes performance. Photo courtesy of Hypothetical

Toby MacNutt during the Dancing Queerly Festival 2019. Photo by Robyn Nicole
Film


WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE NEA

Celebrate Black Music Month this June!

Watch the June 17, 2024, Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge Concert On-Demand

Public NEA Events on June 27 and 28


FEATURED NEWS

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Announcing the Program Mentors and Cast for Challenge Accepted! A Concert
Presenting the Winners of the Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge

Winning Songs to be Performed in Concert on June 17. Watch at arts.gov.


Announcing the 2024-2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Communities

Creative Forces Announces Grants for Arts Engagement Projects to Support
Military-Connected People


FEATURED STORIES

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Blog
On Juneteenth and the Promise of America

Podcast
Pat Johnson
Community Activist, Organizer and 2024 National Heritage Fellow

Magazine Article
A Multitude of Possibilities
A Talk with Multidisciplinary Artist Toby MacNutt


GRANTS

The National Endowment for the Arts awards grants to nonprofit organizations,
creative writers and translators, state arts agencies, and regional arts
organizations in support of arts projects across the country.
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IMPACT

See the impact of the Arts Endowment on your state, and how the agency's work in
research, accessibility, and other areas has had a major impact in the arts and
culture of the country.
Go to the Impact section »


SOME FACTS ABOUT THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent federal agency that funds,
promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities by providing
all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

APPROXIMATELY 2,700 GRANTS

Recommended for grant awards annually in all 50 states, DC, and U.S.
territories.

MORE THAN 70 PERCENT

Percentage of Arts Endowment grants that go to small and medium-sized
organizations (budgets up to $2 million).

APPROXIMATELY 33 PERCENT

Percentage of Arts Endowment-funded activities in high-poverty communities.


SOME FACTS FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

These facts are based on the most recent data (2022) from the Arts and Cultural
Production Satellite Account (ACPSA), which is produced jointly by the National
Endowment for the Arts’ Office of Research & Analysis and the Bureau of Economic
Analysis, U.S. Commerce Department. The ACPSA tracks the annual economic impact
of arts and cultural production from 35 industries, both commercial and
nonprofit.

$1.1 TRILLION

Amount the arts and cultural industries contribute to the U.S. economy.

4.3 PERCENT

Percentage of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product is accounted for by arts and
cultural industries.

NEARLY 5.2 MILLION

Americans work in the arts and cultural industries on payroll.


SOME FACTS ABOUT THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent federal agency that funds,
promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities by providing
all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

62 CENTS

The Arts Endowment’s annual cost to each American.

0.00337 PERCENT

The Arts Endowment’s percentage of the federal budget.

NEARLY $6 BILLION

Amount awarded by the Arts Endowment since its beginning in 1965.


SOME FACTS FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

These facts are based on the most recent data (2017) from the Survey of Public
Participation in the Arts (SPPA), a national survey conducted in partnership
with the U.S. Census Bureau that has allowed cultural policymakers, arts
managers, scholars, and journalists to obtain reliable statistics about American
patterns of arts engagement.

NORTH DAKOTA

The state's residents attend live performing arts events at a higher rate than
U.S. adults as a whole—with 62 percent for North Dakota residents versus 48.5
percent of U.S. adults.

MONTANA

Outperforms the national rate of attending art exhibits, with 33.5 percent of
this state’s residents doing this activity versus 23 percent of Americans
overall.

OREGON AND WASHINGTON

Their literary reading rates (upwards of 60 percent) far exceed the U.S. as a
whole (44 percent).


SOME FACTS ABOUT THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent federal agency that funds,
promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities by providing
all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

APPROXIMATELY $8 MILLION

Amount of arts education funding for lifelong learning projects annually.

MORE THAN 24 MILLION

Estimated number of people who attend a live arts event annually.

42

Percentage of NEA grants awarded to localities of less than a million people.


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