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Q&A with the NEA

Date: Jan 23, 2025

Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Venue: zoom (zoom link will be sent to the registered participants before the event)

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Presenter: Tamika Shingler, Museums and Visual Arts Specialist, Visual Arts Division, National Endowment for the Arts

Description: Tamika Shingler from the NEA will hold office hours for the UH Mānoa faculty. Please attend (or watch recording) of the Grants for Arts Project webinar and come prepared with questions. (see NEA website https://www.arts.gov/grants/grants-for-arts-projects).

NEA FY 2026 Grant Opportunities Now Available

Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) supports an expansive range of arts activities to strengthen the nation’s arts and culture ecosystem, including opportunities for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector.

Grants for Arts Projects supports projects in the areas of Artist Communities, Arts Education, Dance, Design, Film & Media Arts, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Museums, Music, Musical Theater, Opera, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater, and Visual Arts. (Note: The Media Arts discipline has a new name in recognition of the breadth of projects the agency supports in this area.) In the Instructions documents on the GAP webpage, each discipline has outlined their broader arts ecosystem, the types of projects they encourage, and guidance on characteristics of competitive proposals.

The NEA is particularly interested in arts projects that:

•    Enable artists, arts workers, and arts organizations to thrive;

•    Celebrate the nation’s history, civic life, and community connection, including projects that celebrate the nation’s wide range of creativity by honoring the semiquincentennial of the United States of America (America 250);

•    Support the health and well-being of people and communities through the arts;

•    Originate from or are in collaboration with the following constituencies encouraged by White House Executive Orders:

— Historically Black Colleges and Universities

— Tribal Colleges and Universities

— American Indian and Alaska Native tribes

— Predominantly Black Institutions

— Hispanic Serving Institutions

— Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, and

— Organizations that support the independence and lifelong inclusion of people with disabilities.

See the GAP Grant Program Details for additional information on these areas of interest.

Grants range from $10,000 to $100,000. All grants require a nonfederal cost share or match of at least 1 to 1. In addition, designated local arts agencies eligible to subgrant may request from $30,000 to $150,000 for subgranting in the Local Arts Agencies discipline.

Application Deadlines: February 13, 2025, and July 10, 2025, forprojects taking place beginning in 2026.

·    Grants for Arts Projects guidelines and application instructions

·    Applicant resources

·    Contact information

Sign up for a guidelines webinar on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at 3:00 pm ET. (All webinars are free to attend; however, registration is required. Webinar recordings will be posted shortly after the presentations.)

Additional discipline-specific webinars and informal “office hours” style Q&A sessions will also be available; visit GAP’s Applicant resources page for more details and to register.

Register for the Grants for Arts Projects Webinar


Other NEA Funding Opportunities

Details on all NEA grant opportunities can be found at arts.gov/grants. 

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