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Through its grant-making to thousands of nonprofits each year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes opportunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity.

Through it's grant-making to thousands of nonprofits each year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes opportunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity.

Through its grant-making to thousands of nonprofits each year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes opportunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity.

Through its grant-making to thousands of nonprofits each year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes opportunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity. Weston Playhouse Theatre Company is honored to be a spring 2015 grant recipient.

Through its grant-making to thousands of nonprofits each year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes opportunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity.

Through its grant-making to nonprofits each year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes opportunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity.

Hubbard Street Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton and Kathryn Humphreys, the company's Director of Youth, Education and Community Programs, are proud to announce major support for Hubbard Street's continuing work with young people and families in Chicago.

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced its second round of funding for fiscal year 2015; 1,023 recommended grants totaling $74.3 million were awarded to arts organizations in all 50 states and five jurisdictions. Among those awards are only eight collective impact arts education grants, including a $50,000 grant to the Newark Arts Council for the Newark Arts Education Roundtable (NAER).

In the second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2015, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will make a $30,000 award to The 5th Avenue Theatre to support a musical in the company's 2016/17 season. The NEA will make 1,023 awards totaling $74.3 million nationwide in this funding round. Through its grant-making to thousands of nonprofits each year, the NEA promotes opportunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity.

The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts will receive a $15,000 award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to present The Kentucky Center Integration of the Arts and Literacy Academy in June 2016 for Kentucky teachers. The NEA will make 1,023 awards totaling $74.3 million nationwide in this funding round. This is the second major grant announcement of fiscal year for the NEA.

Nearly 1,000 stakeholders from across the orchestra field will attend the League of American Orchestras' Conference 2015, May 27-29 in Cleveland, marking the first time a League Conference has been hosted by The Cleveland Orchestra. Orchestra managers, musicians, staff, trustees, and volunteers will interact with experts from within the arts community and beyond, attending general and elective sessions, live performances, and social and networking events.

Maestro Thierry Fischer and the Utah Symphony welcome Augusta Read Thomas to Abravanel Hall as they perform the world premiere of EOS (Goddess of the Dawn), a ballet for orchestra commissioned by the Utah Symphony. Also on the program is Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1 and Resident Artist Baiba Skride playing Beethoven's Violin Concerto. February 20 and 21 at 8 p.m. There will also be a special concert at the Browning Fine Arts Center in Ogden on Thursday, February 19 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets, priced from $18 to $69 ($10 for students), are available for purchase through www.utahsymphony.org or by calling (801) 355-2787.

Utah Symphony Music Director Thierry Fischer and the Utah Symphony will record live performances of three world premiere commissions from American composers during the 2015 calendar year for release at a later date, starting with Augusta Read Thomas' world premiere of "EOS (Goddess of the Dawn), A Ballet for Orchestra" on February 20 and 21 in Abravanel Hall.

Maestro Thierry Fischer and the Utah Symphony welcome Augusta Read Thomas to Abravanel Hall as they perform the world premiere of EOS (Goddess of the Dawn), a ballet for orchestra commissioned by the Utah Symphony. Also on the program is Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1 and Resident Artist Baiba Skride playing Beethoven's Violin Concerto. February 20 and 21 at 8 p.m. There will also be a special concert at the Browning Fine Arts Center in Ogden on Thursday, February 19 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets, priced from $18 to $69 ($10 for students), are available for purchase through www.utahsymphony.org or by calling (801) 355-2787.

Detroit Public Television and PBS Black Culture Connection are teaming up today and throughout the weekend in Detroit as more than 300 artists, stakeholders, educators and cultural activists gather at the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel in Detroit for the third annual Sphinx Organization conference on diversity in the arts.

Founder Aaron P. Dworkin announces that The Sphinx Organization, a nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts, will host the third annual SphinxCon, one of the nation's leading arts diversity conferences, from tonight, January 30 through February 1, 2015 at the Westin Book Cadillac Detroit, 1114 Washington Blvd, in Detroit, Mich.

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts brightens this winter with POP-UP CONCERTS.

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced that the Lira Ensemble is one of only 163 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Challenge America grant. Lira has had the privilege of being a recipient of NEA grants since 1996.

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced today that PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION is one of 919 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. Playwrights Foundation is recommended for a $35,000 grant to support the 38th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF).

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced that Young Audiences of Houston is one of seven organizations nationwide to receive an arts education collective impact grant through NEA's Art Works grant program. Young Audiences of Houston is recommended for a $50,000 grant to support the Arts Access Initiative, an unprecedented project that will transform the landscape of arts education in Houston and ensure equity of arts access in all of Houston ISD's schools.