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As they work to recover from COVID-19, grant funding has helped these Oklahoma arts organizations mark the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre centennial.

If Congress approves, the National Endowment for the Arts in particular would see its 2022 budget go up to $201m—the highest amount of government funding since its inception

Active-duty military members and their families can get free admission to The Haggin Museum through fall as part of the Blue Star Museums initiative.

(Press Release) — 500 Sails has been approved for a $25,000 Our Town grant to support its Songsong Måmi (Our Village) project. This is one of 63 grants nationwide that

The Grand Rapids Art Museum has been approved for a $35,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support their exhibition, “Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue.”

South County Notebook: May 24, 2021 SCHWARTZ Memorial Hall Museum to offer free admission to military personnel DEERFIELD — Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association’s Memorial Hall Museum will once again join museums nationwide in the Blue Star Museums initiative, a program that provides free admission to currently serving U.S. military personnel and their families this summer. The program, which started earlier this month, will continue through Sept. 6. “Like the resilience that militar...

My New Orleans 05/17/2021   BATON ROUGE, La (press release) – The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced a second round of major grant funding totaling more than $88 million in recommended grants to organizations in all 50 states and jurisdictions for Fiscal Year 2021. The Louisiana Division of Arts and 21 arts organizations around the state will receive more than $1.5 million in grant funding. The Division of Arts is receiving $822,500 to support its NEA-approved strategic plan an...

Standard-Times NEW BEDFORD — The Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum (RJD) will join museums nationwide in the Blue Star Museums initiative, a program that provides free admission to currently-serving U.S. military personnel and their families. The 2021 program will begin on Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 15, 2021, and end on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 6, 2021. Blue Star Museums is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with Blue Star Families, the Department...

Courtesy of Porter Loves Photography Filmmakers gather at the 2019 Pittsburgh Shorts Film Festival, with Kathryn Spitz Cohan in the front row, third from left. Independent filmmakers gather at a reception in the filmmakers’ lounge at the Pittsburgh Shorts Film Festival. Courtesy of Porter Loves Photography At the 2019 Pittsburgh Shorts Film Festival: From left, Jon Fish, director of “The Return,” Milo Stein, star of “Dream Homes According to Kids: Milo,” former Steeler Rocky Bleier,...

  This project will educate and support staff members of historically White art institutions in creating and implementing an anti-racist agenda within the arts, one person at a time. BCRCs project is among the more than 1,100 projects across America, totaling nearly $27 million, that were selected during this second round of Grants for Arts Projects fiscal year 2021 funding.    "As the country and the arts sector begin to imagine returning to a post-pandemic world, the National Endowment...