US EditionTrump Budget Calls For Elimination Of National Endowment For The Arts
- On the evening of May 2, 2025, a federal agency responsible for supporting artistic initiatives sent emails retracting previously granted financial awards to numerous arts organizations nationwide, including Portland Playhouse in Oregon and Oakland Theater Project in California.
- These cancellations come amid President Trump's ongoing efforts to cut NEA funding and the agency's recent decision to concentrate its grant support on initiatives commemorating the United States' 250th anniversary, reflecting broader budget and policy measures aimed at reducing federal cultural programs.
- Affected groups lost grants such as Portland Playhouse's $25,000 award for Joe Turner's Come and Gone and Oakland Theater Project's $30,000 grant for a world premiere of Moby Dick, with many organizations receiving termination notices just before key events.
- The NEA's 2024 budget was $207 million, with the latest grant cycle distributing $36.8 million across 1,474 projects nationally, but the administration aims to reduce staff by nearly half and cancel current and future grants as part of broader budget cuts.
- These grant withdrawals threaten the stability of arts groups already facing post-pandemic financial challenges and create uncertainty about the future scale and operations of the NEA and federal support for the arts sector.
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The Trump Administration terminates 2025 NEA grant at Amherst Cinema
AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) - For five years, the 2025 National Endowment for the Arts grant has helped fund The Amherst Cinema Bellwether. It's a monthly series of films and conversations with visiting artists from around the world. Last Friday, the cinema received an email that the NEA grant will be cut due to shifting federal priorities under the Trump Administration. The $20,000 arts grant leaves two-thirds of the 2025 Bellwether programs unfunded…
NYC Arts Groups Reel As Trump NEA Cuts Hit Home
Kirstin Kapustik was on her way home after a Friday night performance of Trisha Brown Dance Company at The Joyce Theater when her evening took a turn for the worse. Kapustik, the company’s executive director, got an email from the National Endowment for the Arts informing her that its offer of a $40,000 grant would be withdrawn. The money was for a concert production premiering in June, in partnership with the Merce Cunningham Trust, to celebrat…
Editorial: Support arts amid NEA funding cuts | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
A flood of distressed announcements pinged around Hawaii on Monday, springing from the federal administration’s targeting of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Across the nation, cultural organizations were receiving word that grants, though already announced, were “canceled.”
Federal Arts Funding Cuts Hamper Birmingham-Area Events, Programs - BirminghamWatch
(Courtesy of Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema) Your support helps us grow and sustain a newsroom for the City Built to Change the South. Donate today to help Birmingham stay informed. At least two Birmingham-area nonprofits have lost funding through the Trump administration’s cancellation of National Endowment for the Arts grants. A third organization’s grant is under review, and arts community leaders expect NEA funding cuts to trickle down, affec…
Juneau Arts & Humanities drops DEI language from materials; executive director resigns
The Juneau Arts & Humanities Council has released a public statement addressing recent federal advice to remove diversity, equity, and inclusion language from its materials. The Trump Administration will be cutting off funding for race-based or other inherently discriminatory programs. The move comes one month after the Alaska Humanities Forum lost its federal funding from […] The post Juneau Arts & Humanities drops DEI language from materials; …
Feds slash arts funding in Lowell
LOWELL — The cuts just keep coming out of the Trump administration, this time hitting Lowell’s arts community. On Friday, the National Endowment for the Arts notified both the Merrimack Repertory Theatre and the Lowell Festival Foundation, which manages the city’s storied Lowell Folk Festival, that it had “withdrawn” the $20,000 grant funding already promised to each organization for fiscal 2025. “The NEA is updating its grantmaking policy prior…
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