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A Long Road Ahead to Save Federal Arts Funding
For artists, writers, and scholars across the country, the recent release of President Trump’s full budget proposal has been met with a now-familiar sense of dismay. The proposed budget… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
The Trump administration's plans for the NEA and NEH, Fox News retracts fake news, student's commencement speech at the University of Maryland sparks debate in China, and more. More
New Budget Proposal a Potential “Deathblow” to Arts and Culture Funding
President Trump’s proposal to completely defund the United States’ federal arts and culture institutions in the 2018 budget would deprive millions of Americans access to valuable and enriching programs,… More
Thomas Bender: “The NEH Began Over 200 Careers in Archives, Libraries, and More”
The last NEH grant that I directed, 25 years ago, was for creating an MA program in archives management in our history department at NYU. More
Norman Rush: “NEA Support Came at Just the Right Time”
The NEA Literary Fellowship in 1986 was instrumental in providing support for the completion of my first novel. More
Lenore Myka: “Art May Not Change the World But It Changes the People Who Can”
People say we live in a culture that doesn't value the arts. But I know this isn't true. More
Angela Davis-Gardner: “The Loss of the NEA or the NEH Would Impoverish Us All”
This country’s artists, historians, and citizens badly need the NEA and the NEH … The loss of the NEA and/or the NEH would impoverish us all. More
James Atlas: “The Award Enabled Me to Just Write”
As for my NEH award, I list it on my CV and consider it a major achievement in my literary career. More
Amanda Vaill: The NEH “Insists on Accountability and Excellence”
Calls to abolish the Endowments don’t even seem like penny-wise-pound-foolishness. They’re more like shooting America in the foot. More
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