Jamie Karolich, program director for Craft Your Commerce, speaks at the National Endowment for the Arts' May 2026 National Council on the Arts meeting in Asheville, NC, which focused on disaster ...

Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus Performing at the 2025 Awards Ceremony in Washington DC - Photo by Tom Pich ...

Steve Tamayo: You know, growing up, I've always created art somehow, some way, but it wasn't until I became an adult. I made my way out of the military and that when I got back home. That's when I ...

Um, Carmen, I wanted to ask you if we could go back to talking a little bit more about um, where you were born and where you uh, grew up and you, you kind of touched on this, but the fact that your ...

Adrienne Reiko Iwanaga: Right. Um, Certainly, you don't need classical dance, training to be in a bone dancer or, definitely, in Obon dancer. Everyone, it's, Everyone should dance and not necessarily ...

2026 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Carmen Lundy is an award-winning vocalist, composer, and arranger whose multifaceted artistry has significantly influenced modern jazz over a career ...

Through our blog, we hope to enrich public understanding of what art is and how art works in our communities. Through artist interviews, spotlights on Arts Endowment-supported and other projects, ...

Visual artist Makoto Fujimura, a former member of the National Council on the Arts, talks about how his art practice is the foundation of everything he does.

“When I was a little kid playing cowboys with my brother and other neighborhood kids—chasing the bad guys on our ‘horses’—I was singing the action music; modulating up and up, louder and louder, as we ...

Ernest “Papa” Hemingway, known as one of the great American 20 th century novelists, can also be remembered as a man who chased adventure. When he wasn’t writing, he was hunting game in Africa, ...

, he said he was “floored.” We’re not sure why. After all, the poet has published over a dozen books and collections of poetry and has endeared himself to kids across the country with his instinctual ...

Award-winning theater and television actress Judith Light makes the case for the importance of arts education for young people.