Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts Mary Anne Carter and members of the National Council on the Arts will gather in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 28-29, 2026, for their next meeting.

The Biden-Harris Administration today released the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2025, which includes $210.1 million for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Following historic progress ...

Cover photo: Mandala coloring activity from “Art Saved Me” opioid use treatment program. Photo by DaiAwen Cynfamau, courtesy of IMPOWR-ME Research Center, Montefiore Einstein Washington, DC—A new ...

Author of the NEA Big Read title "Nothing to See Here" Kevin Wilson discusses the serious issues at the heart of this outrageous (and outrageously funny) novel.

Washington, DC—Applications are now open for National Endowment for the Arts Big Read grants to support community-wide reading programs between September 2027 and June 2028 under the new theme, “Read ...

Through a series of awards, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has established a national program of interdisciplinary research teams in the arts. The National Endowment for the Arts Research ...

Below is a list of all NEA Literature Fellowships awarded since 1965. You can search by year, name, or fellowship type (creative writing or translation). We also have sections where you can find out ...

When did science fiction first cross over from genre writing to the mainstream of American literature? Almost certainly it happened on October 19, 1953, when a young Californian named Ray Bradbury ...

How can design efforts help unify an aging historic town center and reconnect a community with its public spaces? Ajo, Arizona, is a former copper mining town in the middle of the Sonoran Desert. It ...

This report builds on the National Endowment for the Arts’ Arts Strategies for Addressing the Opioid Crisis: Examining the Evidence published in 2020. Like the earlier report, it includes a structured ...

It is with great sadness that the National Endowment for the Arts acknowledges the passing of 2010 NEA Opera Honoree Martina ...

Washington, DC—The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in partnership with Mid-America Arts Alliance, is pleased to announce the 2025 Creative Forces® Community Engagement grant recipients.