National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts will host a webcast, Improving Arts Learning through Standards & Assessment: A National Endowment for the Arts Research Roundtable on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 from 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM

Composer, Choreographer, PerformerMeredith Monk reflects on her 45 year career as a performing artist.

On behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts, it is with great sadness that I acknowledge the passing of 2006 NEA Jazz Master John Levy, a recipient of the A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Master Award for Jazz Advocacy.

Meejin Yoon talks about creating work at the intersection of art, architecture, landscape, and technology.

Grants support unique opportunities to engage with NEA Jazz Masters through performance and education opportunities.

At the 2012 NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony & Concert on January 10, 2012, the National Endowment for the Arts not only welcomed five new inductees into this elite group, but also celebrated 30 years of jazz and its importance in American culture.

Legendary drummer and 2012 NEA Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette talks about his early career.

National Endowment for the Arts will honor the 2012 NEA Jazz Masters at an awards ceremony and concert produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center and featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.

The gifted 26-year-old pianist talks about making a career in jazz.

For the first time, the National Endowment for the Arts critically acclaimed Operation Homecoming writing program will take place in a clinical setting as part of a formal medical protocol to help heal service members at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

The new Our Town guidelines are available. Our Town supports creative placemaking projects that contribute to the livability of communities and place the arts at their core

Chairman Landesman announced today that 162 Challenge America grants totaling $1,620,000 will be awarded to organizations in 46 states, plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The National Endowment for the Arts is leading a new task force of 13 federal agencies and departments to encourage more and better research on how the arts help people reach their full potential at all stages of life.

At a public panel discussion in Rapid City, South Dakota, today, National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced that the agency will award 863 grants to organizations and individual writers across the country.

The video archive of the October 27, 2011 NEA Opera Honors ceremony and concert is up on our YouTube channel

Join us October 27, 2011 from 7:30-9:15 pm ET for the 2011 NEA Opera Honors ceremony and concert in Washington, DC at the Sidney Harman Center for the Performing Arts. Honorees include designer John Conklin, general director Speight Jenkins, Mezzo-soprano Risë Stevens, and composer Robert Ward.

Marc Scorca celebrates opera in America and the 2011 NEA Opera Honorees.

Profiles of 80 of the NEA National Heritage Fellowship recipients from 1982 to 2011. Also included is the NEA National Heritage Fellowships DVD-ROM with photos, videos, and audio recordings of all the Heritage Fellows.

Meet Morris Robinson, who was a football All-American at The Citadel, started studying voice at the age of 30, and sings at the great opera houses throughout the country.

The archived video of the live webcast announcement of the finalists and honorable mentions which took place October 10, 2011 at the Grantmakers in the Arts conference.