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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.

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

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.”

/ The 2021 NEA Jazz Masters class: Terri Lyne Carrington, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Henry Threadgill and Phil Schaap The 2021 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert — honoring Albert “Tootie” Heath, Henry Threadgill, Terri Lyne Carrington and Phil Schaap — will take place on Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 8 p.m. EDT. Presented by the National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with SFJAZZ, this virtual event will feature prerecorded performances and tributes by an array of prominent jazz artists. The event's hosts are Dee Dee Bridgewater, 2017 NEA Jazz Master, and Delroy Lindo, an actor ...

With support from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Ohio arts organizations and poets were awarded $650,000 in federal grants for future community projects. Twenty-nine state organizations received funding through NEA’s Grants for Arts Projects program, and three Ohio poets were selected among 35 total recipients of the Creative Writing Fellowships. Donna Collins, executive director of the Ohio Arts Council, said this funding ensures organizations and artists of all creative practices are recognized for their contributions. More important, it allows them to put their dreams i...