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

Cambodian dancers perform at the Trivial Mekong Nighttime Market in St. Paul, Minnesota. Photograph 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 Guild of Los Angeles in a still from the tribute film T he Culture of America, available for free 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 schoolhouse Pua Ali'i 'Ilima perform a hula pū'ili (split bamboo) at the Prince Lot Hula Festival in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Photograph 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 M. Stewart

Teenager crying on stage with other teenagers after winning contest.

DC land champion Amanda Fernandez is appear every bit the 2007 Poetry Out Loud National Champion. Photo past 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

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Some Facts near 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 Percentage

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

35 Percentage

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

Some Facts from the National Endowment for the Arts

These facts are based on the near recent data (2020) from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Business relationship (ACPSA), which is produced jointly by the National Endowment for the Arts' Office of Research & Analysis and the Bureau of Economical Analysis, U.S. Commerce Department. The ACPSA tracks the almanac economical bear on of arts and cultural production from 35 industries, both commercial and nonprofit.

$876.7 billion

Corporeality the arts and cultural industries contribute to the U.Due south. economic system.

iv.2 Percentage

Percentage of the nation's Gross Domestic Product is deemed for past arts and cultural industries.

4.6 Million

Americans piece of work in the arts and cultural industries on payroll.

Some Facts most the National Endowment for the Arts

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

48 Cents

The Arts Endowment's almanac cost to each American.

0.003 Percent

The Arts Endowment'southward percentage of the federal budget.

$5.six Billion

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

Some Facts most 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.

Around 45 Million Americans

Attend a live arts event supported by the Arts Endowment annually.

More than 39,000

Concerts, readings, and performances are supported annually.

More than than vi,000

Exhibitions are supported annually as well.

Some Facts from the National Endowment for the Arts

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

North Dakota

The land's residents attend alive performing arts events at a higher rate than U.South. adults as a whole—with 62 percent for North Dakota residents versus 48.five percent of U.S. adults.

Montana

Outperforms the national rate of attending art exhibits, with 33.5 percent of this state'southward residents doing this activity versus 23 percentage of Americans overall.

Oregon and Washington

Their literary reading rates (upwards of lx percent) far exceed the U.S. as a whole (44 percent).

Some Facts most 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.

Approximately $8 meg

Amount of funding of arts education projects annually.

77.six Percent

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

3 Times More Likely

eight- to. 12-grade students from low socioeconomic backgrounds who received arts education to earn a bachelor'south caste than those who did non.