Kicking off the program’s fifth year, the National Endowment for the Arts today announced that 75 not-for-profits — including arts and cultural organizations, libraries, and universities — will receive grants totaling $1 million to host a Big Read project between September 2010 and June 2011.

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The Arts Endowment has launched its YouTube channel with 45 videos focused on interviews with NEA jazz Masters, NEA Opera Honors recipients, and Big Read authors.

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The Arts Endowment has launched its Facebook Fan Page.

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A bluegrass guitarist, sweetgrass basketweaver, and Ghanaian drum master are among this year’s NEA National Heritage Fellowship recipients, announced today by National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman. This award is the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts

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he National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) today announced the recipients of the 2011 NEA Jazz Masters Award — the nation’s highest honor in this distinctly American music.

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The National Endowment for the Arts is giving out 18 lifetime achievement awards on Friday in the fields of opera, jazz, and folk and traditional arts.

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This summer, Homeland Collections Portrait Gallery welcomes award-winning photographer, Marci Sandler to lead "Creating Photographic Art," a dynamic two-day photography workshop. The workshop will teach participants to create high-quality, fantasy and exotic images, and include an optional photo shoot on location at Tide Pools. Made possible by grants from the Virgin Islands Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, one student from each St. Croix island high school with a passion for or interest in photography will receive a scholarship to attend.
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Please join the Office of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and the National Endowment for the Arts for a Grants Workshop and Conversation featuring Robert Frankel, Director, Museum & Visual Arts. Attendees will hear firsthand about funding opportunities and best practices for grant proposals, and will also have the opportunity to ask questions. This event is helpful for grant writers, executive directors, and staff from organizations seeking federal funding for the arts. Thursday, May 20th, 2010 -…
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Forty nonprofit, professional theater companies will receive grants of $25,000 each to participate in Shakespeare for a New Generation from June 1, 2010-May 31, 2011
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Chairman Rocco Landesman today announced the latest round of funding for fiscal year 2010 in the categories of Access to Artistic Excellence, Learning in the Arts, Arts on Radio and Television, and Partnership Agreements (State and Regional)
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