Under the massive silos and steel girding of an industrial steel blast furnace, National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced 21 grants totaling $3 million awarded through the NEA Mayors' Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative (MICD 25).

The web version of the new NEA ARTS is posted. The issue focuses on the arts in Washington, DC

75 not-for-profits,including arts and cultural organizations, libraries, and universities,will receive grants totaling $1 million to host Big Read projects between September 2010 and June 2011.

Kicking off the program's fifth year, the National Endowment for the Arts today announced that 75 not-for-profits -- including arts and cultural organizations, libraries, and universities -- will receive grants totaling $1 million to host a Big Read project between September 2010 and June 2011.

Last week, HUD and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) released two Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs): $100 million in grants available through HUD's Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program, and up to $75 million in grants available through a joint HUD and DOT Sustainable Communities Challenge Grant Program. Under both programs, arts organizations are eligible to partner with state and local governments, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), transit agencies, philanthropic and non-profit organizations and other eligible applicants to develop consortia grant proposals.

When compared with non-media participants, Americans who participate in the arts through technology and electronic media – using the Internet, television, radio, computers, and handheld devices – are nearly three times more likely to attend live arts events; attend twice as many live arts events; and attend a greater variety of genres of live arts events, according to a new report from the Arts Endowment

The Arts Endowment has launched its YouTube channel with 45 videos focused on interviews with NEA jazz Masters, NEA Opera Honors recipients, and Big Read authors.

The Arts Endowment has launched its Facebook Fan Page.

A bluegrass guitarist, sweetgrass basketweaver, and Ghanaian drum master are among this year's NEA National Heritage Fellowship recipients, announced today by National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman. This award is the nation's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts

At today's meeting of the National Council on the Arts, NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman announced the recipients of the 2010 NEA Opera Honors: soprano Martina Arroyo, general director David DiChiera, composer Philip Glass, and music director Eve Queler.

he National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) today announced the recipients of the 2011 NEA Jazz Masters Award -- the nation's highest honor in this distinctly American music.

At the 170th meeting of the National Council on the Arts, NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman announced the 18 artists who are receiving lifetime honorific awards for their significant contributions to their respective fields of jazz, folk and traditional arts, or opera.

NEA Jazz Master and Artistic Director, Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks OrchestraDavid Baker discusses his immersion into jazz, from playing to composing to teaching.

On Thursday, June 17 at 12:00 noon, Bonnie Pitman, The Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, will offer NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman and Linda and Callie Fuller a tour of Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea. Following the tour, the Fullers will record a video message about their visit to send to Callie's father, a member of the National Guard who is currently deployed overseas.

The Birmingham Sunlights discuss the creation of their group and their unique "Birmingham sound."

In his latest stop on the Art Works tour across America, scheduled for June 2 and 3, NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman will visit Chicago, Illinois. Chairman Landesman is coming to the city at the invitation of the MacArthur Foundation and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.

We talk with playwright Rajiv Joseph whose play, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, was an Outstanding New American Play selection of NEA's New Play Development Project and a 2010 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Theater.

Star of stage and screen--and winner of just about every performance award--Rita Moreno talks about her life as a performing artist.

Rocco and Blue Star Families Chairman Kathy Roth-Douquet announced the launch of Blue Star Museums, a partnership with more than 600 museums across America to offer free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2010.

Dancer/choreographer Elizabeth Streb, dance historian Suzanne Carbonneau, and Merce Cunningham Dance Company Executive Director Trevor Carlson discuss the tremendous impact made by the trailblazing choreographer Merce Cunningham.