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The National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education. The National Endowment for the Arts is committed to bringing great American works to every community, large and small, across our country. The mission of the NEA is to enrich our nation and its diverse cultural heritage by supporting works of artistic excellence, advancing learning in the arts, and strengthening the arts in communities throughout the country. The NEA is a vital and necessary partner in supporting the arts at the national, state and local levels.
The NEA announced that it will award grants totaling $1,598,800 to 127 libraries, municipalities, and arts, culture, higher education, and science organizations to host Big Read celebrations of 16 classic novels from January-June 2008.
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National Endowment for the Arts Announces First Round of Participants in Education Leaders Institute
To help put more muscle behind the mandates for arts education, today the National Endowment for the Arts announces the first round of grant recipients to participate in the Education Leaders Institute. Five multidisciplinary teams from states and municipalities across the country will receive NEA support to discuss arts education challenges at the first Institute March 2008 in Chicago, Illinois.
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President George W. Bush today will announce the recipients of the 2007 National Medal of Arts. Nine medals will be presented by the President and Mrs. Laura Bush in an East Room ceremony at the White House.
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The 2006 Annual Report presents profiles of some of the outstanding grants awarded in Fiscal Year 2006.
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The NEA has announced the release of To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence, a new and comprehensive analysis of reading patterns in the United States. To Read or Not To Read gathers statistics from more than 40 studies on the reading habits and skills of children, teenagers, and adults.
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The Arts Endowment has announced awards of $20.2 million to fund 908 grants. The Arts Endowment will distribute $19,189,000 in this round of FY 2008 funding to nonprofit national, regional, state, and local organizations across the country through the NEA's Access to Artistic Excellence category. Forty-two Creative Writing Fellowships awarded to individual writers total more than $1 million.
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The National Endowment for the Arts announced the Minnesota State Arts Board as the recipient of the 2007 National Accessibility Leadership Award/grant for their outstanding accessibility work.
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New posting to the Big Read Blog. Big Read director David Kipen visits Kansas City to catch up on Big Read events there.
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The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) and the National Park Service (NPS), jointly announced the awarding of $7.6 million in federal competitive Save America's Treasures (SAT) grants, which are made in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). With these funds, 31 organizations and agencies will act to conserve significant U.S. cultural and historic treasures, which illustrate, interpret and are associated with the great events, ideas, and individuals that contribute to our nation's history and culture.
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The National Endowment for the Arts will sponsor its annual NEA Jazz Masters events at the International Association for Jazz Education conference January 10 and 11, 2008 in Toronto, Canada.
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