Oregon arts organizations scrambling after National Endowment for the Arts grants are withdrawn

Oregon arts organizations scrambling after National Endowment for the Arts grants are withdrawn

The National Endowment for the Arts has withdrawn more than half a million dollars worth of grants that arts organizations all over Oregon were relying on. Portland Playhouse got a letter that said it would not get $25,000 meant for its production of August Wilson’s and Joe Turner’s “Come and Gone” that was to open the next day. Other organizations that saw their funding pulled include All Classical Portland, Oregon Children’s Theatre, NW Childr…

EDITORIAL: Support arts amid NEA funding cuts

A flood of distressed announcements pinged around Hawaii on Monday, springing from the federal administration’s targeting of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Across the nation, cultural organizations were receiving word that grants, though already announced, were “canceled.” The Hawaii International Film Festival was one of the organizations affected; HIFF revealed that more than $200,000 in federal money from the NEA and other sources…

Fort Worth youth theater program joins list of Tarrant arts groups to lose federal funds

A Fort Worth area nonprofit is the latest Tarrant County arts organization to lose grant funding as the National Endowment for the Arts continues to withdraw awards from cultural institutions across the country. Maroon 9 Community Enrichment Organization learned May 2 that the NEA terminated a $10,000 grant supporting the organization’s summer program, facility reservations and production of “Harriet Tubman, Take My Hand and Follow Me.” “At the …

North Texas arts organizations see funds terminated

Federal grant money for arts organizations across the nation and in North Texas has been canceled. Earlier this month, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) slashed funding, affecting nearly 25 local art and culture groups. The cuts happened in early May, soon after President Donald Trump’s proposal to eliminate the agency. Grantees shared the email they received from NEA with NBC 5. The email reads in part, “The NEA is updating its grantmak…

Ten Heritage Foundation Arguments Against The NEA, And How To Answer Them

Ben Davis: “I think it’s important for NEA advocates to actually understand the spectrum of arguments ranged against them, and not rely on dated or off-target counter-arguments. So I thought I would put down, here, replies to each of Heritage’s “Ten Good Reasons to Eliminate Funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.” – Artnet

Federal funding cuts impact International Storytelling Center - SuperTalk 92.9

The International Storytelling Center in Jonesbourough will not receive a $30,000 grant that it had...