The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced the awarding of grants to support arts across all 50 states, as well as in Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. In total, 1,474 awards tallying $36,790,500 were announced.
Grants were awarded in the following categories: Grants for Arts Projects (funding for projects that engage the public and strengthen the nation’s arts and cultural ecosystem), Challenge America (funding for smaller arts organizations that serve communities with limited arts access), Research Grants in the Arts (funding for studies that explore and quantify the value and impact of the arts) and Research Labs (funding for transdisciplinary studies in arts and non-arts sectors). Additionally, literary fellowships will be awarded in the genre of poetry.
Several organizations with Broadway ties were named grant recipients (for specific projects), including Second Stage Theater ($25,000), TDF ($55,000), Playwrights Horizons ($25,000), New York Theatre Workshop ($50,000), the Public Theater’s New York Shakespeare Festival ($35,000), MCC Theater ($20,000), New 42nd Street ($15,000), New Dramatists ($70,000), New York Stage and Film ($60,000), Arthur Miller Foundation ($50,000), Stella Adler School of Acting ($15,000), Primary Stages ($20,000), Soho Repertory Theatre ($50,000), Theatre for a New Audience ($15,000), Ars Nova ($25,000), The Shed ($25,000), La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club ($30,000), New York City Ballet ($20,000), Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation ($50,000), Carnegie Hall ($70,000) and Metropolitan Opera ($70,000).
“The NEA is proud to continue our nearly 60 years of supporting the efforts of organizations and artists that help to shape our country’s vibrant arts sector and communities of all types across our nation,” said NEA chair Maria Rosario Jackson. “It is inspiring to see the wide range of creative projects taking place — those that address our past and help us consider our future, integrate arts and culture in new ways into our lives and communities, and provide powerful opportunities for people throughout our nation to come together through a shared arts experience.”
A complete list of grant recipients by discipline can be found here.
