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National Endowment for the Arts Announces Funding for States and Regions for Fiscal Year 2013

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced today that the NEA will award $45,085,105 in partnership agreements to fund 54 state and jurisdictional arts agencies and six regional arts organizations throughout the coun…

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National Endowment for the Arts to Present Webinar on Accessibility in Media Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts will host a webinar on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET at arts.gov to discuss best practices for making websites and digital content widely accessible to all audiences.

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National Endowment for the Arts to Present Webinar on Accessibility in Media Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts will host a webinar on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET at arts.gov to discuss best practices for making websites and digital content widely accessible to all audiences.

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Nominate a NEA National Heritage Fellow

New nomination information for the NEA National Heritage Fellowships has been posted on the Art Endowment site. The Heritage Fellowships are the nation’s highest award in the folk & traditional arts.

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Washington State’s Langston Ward is named Poetry Out Loud National Champion

Langston Ward, a high school senior from Spokane, Washington, has won the 2013 Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest. National Endowment for the Arts Deputy Chairman Patrice Walker Powell and Poetry Foundation Program Director Stephen Young anno…

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National Endowment for the Arts Announces Second Round of Fiscal Year 2013 Art Works Grants

Arts Endowment Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced today that the NEA plans to award $26.3 million in grants to nonprofit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide.

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National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa Announces $350,000 in Research Grants

National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa has announced $350,000 in NEA support for 17 new research grants that measure different characteristics and contributions of the arts, which the NEA has mapped as a complex, dynamic system.

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Brookings Institution Publishes Research on the Arts and Economic Development

Just released by the Brookings Institution, Creative Communities: Art Works in Economic Development is a new publication based on a collaborative effort with the National Endowment for the Arts to stimulate more rigorous research on the arts and econo…

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NEA Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa and Poetry Foundation President John Barr Announce the 2013 National Finals of Poetry Out Loud, April 29-30, 2013

At the end of National Poetry Month, 53 students from across the country will converge in Washington, DC, on April 29-30, 2013 to compete in the National Finals of Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest, the nation’s largest youth poetry recitat…

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National Council on the Arts March 2013 Meeting

The most recent National Council on the Arts public meeting took place on March 29, 2013 in Washington, DC. The meeting archive is now online.

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