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The Association of Performing Arts Professionals has announced programming highlights for APAP|NYC+ 2023, the world's leading global performing arts marketplace and members conference, taking place in New York City, January 13 - 17.

The Association of Performing Arts Professionals has announced programming highlights for APAP|NYC+ 2023, the world's leading global performing arts marketplace and members conference, taking place in New York City, January 13-17. It will be the first time APAP|NYC+ has been held in person since 2020.

The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (VACNJ) has been approved for a $15,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support Olas Caribenas/Caribbean Waves.

The National Endowment for the Arts is continuing its long history of honoring America's rich, artistic heritage with today's announcement of the 2022 NEA National Heritage Fellowship recipients which includes virtuosic fiddler, Michael Cleveland.

The National Center for Choreography - Akron has been approved for a $20,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of the recent Creative Administration Research National Summit Convening, a Technical Residency, and two Dancing Labs

Today, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chair Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chair Shelly Lowe announced that their respective agencies will create a Chief Diversity Officer position. The announcement was made at the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies hearing on fiscal year 2023 budget requests for the arts and humanities. Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO (DPE) President Jennifer Dorning released the following statement on the establishment of Chief Diversity Officers for the NEA and NEH:

​​​​​​​The Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University has been approved for a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The grant was awarded to support a portion of the Pittsburgh Playhouse's “Shaping the Arts:  Black Women and Femme Artists and Creators” program.

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is the recipient of a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help support Dance @ The Wallis during the 2022/2023 Season.

Sarasota Orchestra has been approved for a $15,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support the 2022 Sarasota Music Festival. Grant funds will support the 2022 Sarasota Music Festival taking place from June 6-25.

Louis Scaglione, President and Music Director of PYO Music Institute (PYOMI), has announced that they have received the 2022 Grant for Arts Projects Award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support Tune Up Philly --  (Orchestral Pathways Program (TUP).

Dallas-based performing arts group Verdigris Ensemble has been approved for a $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support SHAMS: A Portrait of Our World.

Berkshire Theatre Group has been approved for a $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support its production of B.R.O.K.E.N code B.I.R.D switching

This NEA program provides project-based funding and “supports public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the nation, the creation of art, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life.”

ArtsFairfax has been awarded a $55,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the expansion of artist residencies in Fairfax County.

FirstWorks, a Providence-based nonprofit dedicated to connecting art with audiences, has been approved for a $20,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). FirstWorks' project will widen the circle for Rhode Island audiences by engaging visionary artists of color in a series of multidisciplinary arts commissions, presentations, residencies, and related engagement activities.

The National Endowment for the Arts and the American Theatre Wing are pleased to announce the premiere of the final songs from the 2021 winners of the Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge. On Saturday, April 23, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. ET iHeartRadio Broadway will share these songs in a special broadcast. They will also be available as part of the album #IWriteMusicals Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge 2021 Edition on the iHeartRadio app and wherever music can be streamed.

Denver Arts & Venues  have been selected to receive an American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help the arts and cultural sector recover from the pandemic. Arts & Venues has received $500,000 and will use this funding to distribute grants in their community to eligible recipients to save jobs and to fund operations and facilities, health and safety supplies, and marketing and promotional efforts to encourage attendance and participation.

A Noise Within has been approved to receive an American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help the arts and cultural sector recover from the pandemic. A Noise Within has received $150,000 and may use this funding to save jobs and to fund operations and facilities, health and safety supplies, and marketing and promotional efforts to encourage attendance and participation.

EXPO CHICAGO today announced the full roster of participating artists and speakers for its core programs throughout its ninth annual edition, taking place April 7 – 10, 2022.

The Broadway Advocacy Coalition has kicked off the new year with recognition from the National Endowment of the Art and The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.