MAP Fund is pleased to announce its 2024 grantees. This grant cycle, we are awarding $2.883 million to 93 live performance projects. This is the largest one-time award distribution in our organization’s 36-year history! mapfund.org/2024-grantees/

DC friends, celebrate the 2024 @neaarts #NationalHeritageFellows during a documentary film screening and award ceremony, in-person in Washington, DC, and livestreamed Sept. 17 & 18! Learn more at: bit.ly/4czPwQj

Come see us at the Library of Congress #NationalBookFestival this Saturday! We'll be hanging out at our stage in the West Salon, featuring some familiar names like #NEALitFellow Peng Shepherd & Sound Health Network partner Renee Fleming 📚📕✨ More info @ loc.gov!

Here's a sneak peek at the cover for the new issue of American Artscape, which goes live on arts.gov at the end of next week! We're looking at the relationship between arts & the built environment featuring stories on Atlanta Beltline Mixed Blood Theatre U.S. EPA & more!

We invite you to nominate a jazz artist or advocate who has been significant to the field of jazz through vocal & instrumental performance, creative leadership, mentorship, and education for an NEA Jazz Master Fellowship. Nominations due 10/31/24. More: bit.ly/3M4EGXY

The 2025 USArtists International guidelines are available on our website. To view the updated program guidelines, visit: ecs.page.link/8h21a

🚨Upcoming Deadline! Don't miss your chance to nominate an artist or arts organization for a 2024 National Medal of Arts. Nominations are due 10/3/2024. For more info, visit: arts.gov/honors/medals/… (Photo by Cheriss May) #NationalMedalOfArts #Arts

“Children engage in artistic play in all sorts of ways. They draw, they dance, they make music, they move their bodies, they pretend play and engage in theater.” Professor and researcher Dr. Thalia Goldstein joins us on the Art Works pod! Listen: bit.ly/4g3Wvnz #Art

Call for artists! Real-time outdoor painting competition happening Sunday, October 13, 2024. Learn more here: artventurenj.com/2024-plein-air… #NJarts

Our 2025 Appalachian Foodways Practitioner Fellowships application is now open! Practitioners committed to sustaining Appalachian food heritage of their communities are eligible to apply. Apply by Thursday, October 17th. Learn more at: ecs.page.link/hY2pC

📢Join the Nat'l Endow f/t Arts team! We're hiring for the following position: Folk and Traditional Arts Director usajobs.gov/job/808417900 Application period: 9/11/24-9/30/24. Visit USAJOBS for details and to apply!

Coming soon: the National Leaders of Color Fellowship (LoCF) application opens Monday, September 16! We're also hosting an applicant information session on Sept. 26 at 5 p.m. MDT, you won't want to miss it! Learn More: artslead.org/leaders/leader… RSVP: ow.ly/SlQj50TllOI

Celebrate 20 years of PoetryOutLoud this 2024-2025 school year! Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation competition. Learn more about Poetry Out Loud at: ecs.page.link/ttZjC @neaarts @poetryfound #POL20Years #POL2025

We're so excited to announce the 2024-2025 Folk and Traditional Arts Community Projects Grants! We're thrilled to offer over $120,000 in grant support for 21 orgs in 9 states, with the generous support of @neaarts. Learn more at: ecs.page.link/EZVkC #TraditionalArts

Baltimoreans, the Baltimore Community Foundation invites applications for the Maryland Tough Baltimore Strong Key Bridge Fund to contribute to the recovery and resilience of Baltimore as a result of the Key Bridge tragedy. Learn more at: ecs.page.link/bHKDG

WESTAF is pleased to partner with its five Regional Arts Organization counterparts for the 2024-25 National Leaders of Color Fellowship (LoCF). Learn more at ecs.page.link/r4Lcs or at our upcoming info session on Thursday, September 26. Register at: ecs.page.link/FTk4R

Please join Nat'l Endow f/t Arts on Monday, September 30 from 3:30-5:00 pm ET to share your thoughts & ideas on the barriers, best practices & ideal working environments for artists/cultural workers with disabilities to do their best work. Learn more/register at arts.gov/events.

Exciting news! Congratulations to 4Youth Productions - one of 112 recipients of an ArtsHERE grant! This new pilot program from the Nat'l Endow f/t Arts aims to strengthen the capacity for community engagement and arts participation for underserved groups and communities across the country.