Title: National Endowment for the Arts - Wikipedia
Headings: National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
Contents
Background
Grants
Governance
Grantmaking
Relative scope of funding
Lifetime honors
Controversy
1981 attempts to abolish
1989 objections
1990 performance artists vetoed
1995–1997 congressional attacks
Proposed defunding
Chairpersons
Nancy Hanks (1969–77)
See also
References
Citations
Sources
Further reading
Primary sources
External links

Content: Grantmaking
The NEA offers grants in the categories of: 1) grants for arts projects, 2) national initiatives, and 3) partnership agreements. Grants for arts projects support exemplary projects in the discipline categories of artist communities, arts education, dance, design, folk and traditional arts, literature, local arts agencies, media arts, museums, music, musical theater, opera, presenting (including multidisciplinary art forms), theater, and visual arts. The NEA also grants individual fellowships in literature to creative writers and translators of exceptional talent in the areas of prose and poetry. The NEA has partnerships in the areas of state and regional, federal, international activities, and design. The state arts agencies and regional arts organizations are the NEA's primary partners in serving the American people through the arts. Forty percent of all NEA funding goes to the state arts agencies and regional arts organizations. Additionally, the NEA awards three Lifetime Honors: NEA National Heritage Fellowships to master folk and traditional artists, NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships to jazz musicians and advocates, and NEA Opera Honors to individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to opera in the United States. The NEA also manages the National Medal of Arts, awarded annually by the President.