The bill exceeds the respective $75 million allocated to the NEA and NEH in the Trump administration’s 2020 CARES Act.
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$900 Billion US Stimulus Package Includes $15 Billion for the Arts
The deal provides crucial aid to the performing arts sector and creates two unique Smithsonian museums, one dedicated to Latinx history and the other to women’s history.
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National Endowment for the Humanities Allocated $120K to Restore and Build Monuments
One grant will fund the restoration of a Christopher Columbus statue rolled into the harbor by protesters; another will fund the creation of a Frederick Douglass monument.
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The Radical Collective of 20-Somethings Who Filmed the DNC and RNC of 1972
The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive has digitized hundreds of hours of raw footage by TVTV, a collective of “video freaks” active throughout the 1970s.
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NEH Announces COVID-19 Relief Grants Using Stimulus Funds
The National Endowment for the Humanities will offer emergency grants of up to $300,000 to organizations across the country.
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What the $2 Trillion Stimulus Means for the Arts, Struggling to Stay Afloat
While leading museum associations petitioned Congress for $4 billion to buoy nonprofit museums, today Trump signed the controversial stimulus bill, promising the NEA and NEH a respective $75 million.
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Trump Threatens to Eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts, Again
The 2021 budget proposal labels the NEA, as well as National Endowment for the Humanities, under the category of “wasteful and unnecessary funding.”
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Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Receives $750K for New Campus
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced the recipients of $30.9 million in grants this morning in Santa Fe at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, which received a matching grant to go toward its new campus project.
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Trump Signs Bill Boosting the NEA and NEH Budgets He Wanted to Eliminate
The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities will each receive about $153 million in federal funding in fiscal year 2018, around $3 million more than in 2017.
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Trump’s Proposed 2019 Budget Would Slash Arts Funding in Attempt to Close NEA and NEH [UPDATED]
Just like last year, Trump’s budget proposal calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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National Endowment for the Humanities Gives $12.8M in Grants to 253 Projects
From environmental monitoring equipment for Frank Lloyd Wright homes to an overhaul of an online database of archaeological artifacts related to slavery, the grants span a huge range of projects.
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National Endowment for the Humanities Pledges $1M for Cultural Institutions Hit by Hurricane Harvey [UPDATED]
Organizations in FEMA-designated disaster zones will have until December 31 to apply for emergency grants of up to $30,000.