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National Endowment for the Arts
Supporting the Arts in Your Community
Visit the Creative Forces: Healing the Invisible Wounds of War online exhibition.
Check out the archive of “The Culture of America: A Cross-Country Visit with the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows" event from March 4, 2021.
Arts Endowment Supports the Arts with over $88 Million in Awards in Second Round of FY2021 Funding
Blue Star Museums Nationwide Offer Free Admission to Military Families, May 15-September 6, 2021
National Endowment for the Arts on COVID-19.
New BEA/NEA report shows arts & culture add 4.3 percent/$919.7 billion to nation's GDP.
Check out the archive of the 2021 NEA Jazz Masters!
General Operating Support Waivers for FY2019-2021 Grantees
Visit the Creative Forces: Healing the Invisible Wounds of War online exhibition.
Check out the archive of “The Culture of America: A Cross-Country Visit with the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows" event from March 4, 2021.
Arts Endowment Supports the Arts with over $88 Million in Awards in Second Round of FY2021 Funding
Blue Star Museums Nationwide Offer Free Admission to Military Families, May 15-September 6, 2021
National Endowment for the Arts on COVID-19.
New BEA/NEA report shows arts & culture add 4.3 percent/$919.7 billion to nation's GDP.
Check out the archive of the 2021 NEA Jazz Masters!
General Operating Support Waivers for FY2019-2021 Grantees
Visit the Creative Forces: Healing the Invisible Wounds of War online exhibition.
Check out the archive of “The Culture of America: A Cross-Country Visit with the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows" event from March 4, 2021.
Grants
Impact

Content: $5.5 Billion
Amount awarded by the Arts Endowment since its beginning in 1965. 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. Around 45 Million Americans
Attend a live arts event supported by the Arts Endowment annually. More than 40,000
Concerts, readings, and performances are supported annually. More than 6,000
Exhibitions are supported annually as well. 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).