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From NEA Arts: Community’s the Thing-The Importance of the Summer Theater Festivals to the Berkshires
Posted on December 30, 2011 | No CommentsIn the summer of 1850, David Dudley Field, Jr., an attorney and homeowner in Western Massachusetts’ Berkshire County, arranged a picnic for notable authors and a handful of Berkshire citizens atop Monument Mountain near Great Barrington. That luncheon was said to have sparked the friendship... -
NEW Chairman Announces 863 Grants and $22.543 Million in Funding
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsNEA Chairman Rocco Landesman announces 863 grants and $22.543 million in funding Grants include Art Works and creative writing fellowships Rapid City, South Dakota—At a public panel discussion in Rapid City, South Dakota, today, National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced that the agency... -
NEA’s Survey of Public Participation in the Arts Reveals Greater Arts Participtation
Posted on February 24, 2011 | No CommentsA new analysis of data collected by the 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) reveals that nearly 75 percent of American adults participate in the arts. For nearly three decades, the periodic survey has focused primarily on live attendance at “benchmark” arts... -
NEA Announces Changes to Guidelines
Posted on November 4, 2010 | No CommentsAttention NEA applicants, here is a preview of some changes to the NEA’s Grants for Arts Projects application guidelines that will be posted in January 2011. * The Access to Artistic Excellence and Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth categories have been replaced... -
NEA and HUD Announce Two New Funding Opportunities
Posted on July 12, 2010 | No CommentsOn July 7, 2010, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) held a joint webinar and announced two new funding opportunities for the arts community. NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman has been spearheading negotiations with multiple... -
FROM ARTS AMERICA…NEA AWARDS GRANTS TO SIX BERKSHIRE CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS
Posted on December 22, 2009 | No CommentsBoth the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) have completed a new round of funding. The NEA has selected six organizations in the Berkshires, while the NEH looked, but came up empty. As might be expected, large,... -
NEA and NEH Funding Update
Posted on June 15, 2009 | 1 CommentHouse Interior Appropriations Subcommittee approves bill that provides $170 million for the National Endowment for the Arts and $170 million for the National Endowment for the Humanities. This is approximately a $15 million increase for the NEA over current year funding. The full House Appropriations...
