Women in Cambodian garb of blue and yellow in parade down the street, in front of a banner.

Cambodian dancers perform at the Little Mekong Night Market in St. Paul, Minnesota. Photo courtesy of AEDA

Group of musicians holding instruments seated outside all wearing white shirts.

2021 NEA National Heritage Fellow Tagumpay Mendoza De Leon and the Rondalla Social club of Los Angeles in a nevertheless from the tribute film T he Culture of America, bachelor for free viewing on the NEA YouTube channel. Photo courtesy of Hypothetical Films

Dancers wearing grass skirts and floral wreaths holding bamboo sticks perform a traditional Hawaiian dance.

Students from the Hawaiian trip the light fantastic toe schoolhouse Pua Ali'i 'Ilima perform a hula pū'ili (split bamboo) at the Prince Lot Hula Festival in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Photo courtesy of PA'I Foundation

Woman banging a large drum while man plays flute on stage.

Roy and PJ Hirabayashi perform during the 2011 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert. Photo by Michael G. Stewart

Teenager crying on stage with other teenagers after winning contest.

DC state champion Amanda Fernandez is announced every bit the 2007 Poesy Out Loud National Champion. Photo by James Kegley

Television screen showing an elated Black girl who just won the poetry competition.

South Dakota Poetry Out Loud Champion Rahele Megosha finding out she had been named National Champion during the 2021 virtual contest. Photograph by James Kegley

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Grants

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Some Facts nigh the National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

Approximately 2,300 Grants

Recommended for grant awards annually in all 50 states, DC, and U.Due south. territories.

43 Percent

Pct of Arts Endowment grants take identify in high-poverty neighborhoods.

35 Per centum

Percentage of Arts Endowment grants reach low-income audiences or underserved populations.

Some Facts from the National Endowment for the Arts

These facts are based on the nigh recent information (2020) from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA), which is produced jointly by the National Endowment for the Arts' Office of Research & Assay and the Bureau of Economical Analysis, U.S. Commerce Department. The ACPSA tracks the annual economic touch of arts and cultural production from 35 industries, both commercial and nonprofit.

$876.7 billion

Amount the arts and cultural industries contribute to the U.Southward. economy.

iv.2 Percent

Per centum of the nation'southward Gross domestic product is accounted for by arts and cultural industries.

4.vi Meg

Americans work in the arts and cultural industries on payroll.

Some Facts about the National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an contained federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities past providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

48 Cents

The Arts Endowment's annual toll to each American.

0.003 Per centum

The Arts Endowment's percentage of the federal upkeep.

$5.6 Billion

Amount awarded by the Arts Endowment since its beginning in 1965.

Some Facts about the National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an contained federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

Around 45 Million Americans

Nourish a live arts upshot supported by the Arts Endowment annually.

More 39,000

Concerts, readings, and performances are supported annually.

More than 6,000

Exhibitions are supported annually as well.

Some Facts from the National Endowment for the Arts

These facts are based on the most recent data (2017) from the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA), a national survey conducted in partnership with the U.Due south. Census Agency that has allowed cultural policymakers, arts managers, scholars, and journalists to obtain reliable statistics about American patterns of arts engagement.

North Dakota

The country's residents nourish alive performing arts events at a college charge per unit than U.S. adults equally a whole—with 62 percent for North Dakota residents versus 48.5 percent of U.S. adults.

Montana

Outperforms the national rate of attention art exhibits, with 33.v per centum of this country'south residents doing this activity versus 23 per centum of Americans overall.

Oregon and Washington

Their literary reading rates (upwards of 60 pct) far exceed the U.S. as a whole (44 percentage).

Some Facts nigh the National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

Approximately $eight 1000000

Amount of funding of arts educational activity projects annually.

77.6 Per centum

Arts teaching projects (preK-12) that directly engage with underserved populations.

3 Times More Likely

eight- to. 12-form students from low socioeconomic backgrounds who received arts education to earn a bachelor's degree than those who did non.