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 Marketplace in St. Paul, Minnesota. Photo courtesy of AEDA

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

2021 NEA National Heritage Young man Tagumpay Mendoza De Leon and the Rondalla Club of Los Angeles in a still from the tribute picture show T he Culture of America, bachelor for complimentary viewing on the NEA YouTube aqueduct. Photograph courtesy of Hypothetical Films

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

Students from the Hawaiian dance school 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 past Michael Yard. Stewart

Teenager crying on stage with other teenagers after winning contest.

DC state champion Amanda Fernandez is appear as the 2007 Poetry Out Loud National Champion. Photograph 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 competition. Photo by James Kegley

Grants

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Impact

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Some Facts near the National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an contained federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative chapters 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.S. territories.

43 Percent

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

35 Percent

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

Some Facts from the National Endowment for the Arts

These facts are based on the nearly recent information (2020) from the Arts and Cultural Product Satellite Account (ACPSA), which is produced jointly by the National Endowment for the Arts' Function of Research & Analysis and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.Southward. Commerce Department. The ACPSA tracks the annual economic affect of arts and cultural production from 35 industries, both commercial and nonprofit.

$876.seven billion

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

iv.2 Per centum

Percentage of the nation's Gdp is accounted for past arts and cultural industries.

4.six Million

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 independent federal bureau that funds, promotes, and strengthens the artistic capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with various opportunities for arts participation.

48 Cents

The Arts Endowment's almanac cost to each American.

0.003 Per centum

The Arts Endowment'southward percentage of the federal budget.

$v.half dozen Billion

Amount awarded by the Arts Endowment since its starting time in 1965.

Some Facts well-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.

Effectually 45 Meg Americans

Attend a alive arts outcome supported by the Arts Endowment annually.

More than than 39,000

Concerts, readings, and performances are supported annually.

More than than six,000

Exhibitions are supported annually besides.

Some Facts from the National Endowment for the Arts

These facts are based on the almost recent information (2017) from the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA), a national survey conducted in partnership with the U.S. Census Agency that has immune cultural policymakers, arts managers, scholars, and journalists to obtain reliable statistics nigh American patterns of arts appointment.

North Dakota

The land's residents attend live performing arts events at a college charge per unit than U.Due south. adults as a whole—with 62 percent for N Dakota residents versus 48.v percent of U.South. adults.

Montana

Outperforms the national rate of attention art exhibits, with 33.v percent of this state's residents doing this activity versus 23 percent of Americans overall.

Oregon and Washington

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

Some Facts about the National Endowment for the Arts

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

Approximately $viii meg

Amount of funding of arts pedagogy projects annually.

77.6 Percent

Arts education projects (preK-12) that direct engage with underserved populations.

3 Times More Likely

8- to. 12-grade students from low socioeconomic backgrounds who received arts pedagogy to earn a bachelor'southward caste than those who did not.