THE National Foundation for the Arts (NEA) awarded more than $103 million in grants in its second major funding round in fiscal year 2023.
Organizations in all U.S. jurisdictions and all 50 states will receive funding from the NEA, which is divided into three grant categories: Grants for Arts Projects (GAP), the agency’s largest program, which targets initiatives based on community-based and projects; Our Town, the NEA’s Creative Places program, which supports partnerships involving local government entities and non-profit organizations; and state and regional partnerships, which strengthen local arts agencies and organizations.
“These organizations play an important role in promoting the creative vitality of our nation and helping to ensure that everyone can benefit from the arts, culture and design,” said NEA President Maria Rosario Jackson. , in a press release. statement.
The NEA Arts Project Grants initiative will support 1,129 projects for 2023, totaling more than $31 million in funds. Among the exhibitions receiving GAP funding are an upcoming exploration of black identity and the medium of collage at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, and an exhibition of works by Dominican American artist Firelei Báez at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. The Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswich, New Jersey, will receive $60,000 to help mount an exhibit of contemporary Native American art and publish an accompanying catalog, and the Portland Art Museum in Oregon will receive $55,000. $ to present Africa Fashiona traveling exhibition organized by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
Under the “Our City” umbrella, the NEA has pledged more than $4 million to various public-facing initiatives. These include Prison Communities International (also known as Rehabilitation Through the Arts), which will receive $32,000 for a visual arts program and exhibition opportunity for those incarcerated in the prison system. New York State. The Services to Enhance Potential group of Dearborn, Michigan, will receive $20,000 to support a series of professional development programs dedicated to artists with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
Through its state and regional partnership funding, the NEA will provide more than $67 million to a wide range of local programs. Recipients include the Arts, Culture and Humanities Council of American Samoa, which will receive $373,695, and New Mexico Arts, operating out of Santa Fe, which will receive $918,600.
Last January, the NEA announced its first round of funding for fiscal year 2023, totaling over $34 million. According to a report published by the NEA and the Bureau of Economic Analysis last March, the arts and culture sectors accounted for 4.4% of the US economythat’s more than $1 trillion in economic activity, while employing nearly 4.9 million people.
