NEA news.The National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Independent agency of the U.S. government that supports the creation, dissemination, and performance of the arts. It was created by the U.S. (NEA NEA abbr. 1. National Education Association 2. National Endowment for the Arts NEA (US) n abbr (= National Education Association) → Verband für das Erziehungswesen ) announced it will award more than $25.3 million through 915 grants in the first major grant announcement of fiscal year 2004. The Arts Endowment will distribute $25,352,000 to nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. national, regional, state and local organizations across the country, funding projects in the categories of creativity, services to arts organizations and artists, literature fellowships and leadership initiatives. For more information about these grants, contact the NEA Office of Communications at (202) 682-5570. In addition, NEA has posted Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. for fiscal year 2005 on its website at www.arts.gov/grants/apply/GAP05/. These are the first online-only GAP guidelines at the Endowment, providing applicants earlier access and a more flexible format for changes and access to information. Grants for Arts Projects supports exemplary projects in dance, design, folk and traditional arts, literature, local arts agencies, media arts, museums, music, musical theater, opera, presenting, theater, visual arts visual arts npl → artes fpl plásticas visual arts npl → arts mpl plastiques visual arts npl → and multidisciplinary mul·ti·dis·ci·pli·nar·y adj. Of, relating to, or making use of several disciplines at once: a multidisciplinary approach to teaching. art forms. Although organizations will apply directly through these fields, each discipline offers granting opportunities in the various categories, including Access to Artistic Excellence, Challenge America Fast-Track Review Grants and Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth. For more information about the categories and about GAP requirements, visit www.arts.gov/grants/apply/ GAP05/. In other NEA news, President George W. Bush is requesting an $18 million budget increase for NEA to fund a major new initiative, American Masterpieces Masterpieces was released in Japan and Australia in anticipation for Bob Dylan's 1978 tour. It is more or less a greatest hits collection spanning his entire career up that point. : Three Centuries of Artistic Genius. This three-year program will combine arts presentations with education programming to introduce Americans to the best of their cultural and artistic legacy. American Masterpieces will sponsor presentations of the great American works across all art forms and will reach large and small communities in all fifty states. The President's request would raise the Arts Endowment's budget by $18 million from $121 million in fiscal year 2004 to $139.4 million, the largest increase since 1984. Fifteen million dollars of the increase would fund the American Masterpieces initiative, with the remainder going toward other grant-making and administrative costs administrative costs, n.pl the overhead expenses incurred in the operation of a dental benefits program, excluding costs of dental services provided. . The new budget also includes more than $53 million in support for state arts organizations and underserved local communities. For more information contact the NEA Office of Communications at (202) 682-5570 or visit www.arts.gov. |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion