The National Endowment for the Arts is inviting applications for 2023 NEA Research Grants in the Arts to support research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life.
Donor Name: National Endowment for the Arts
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/28/2022
Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
They are interested in research covering one or more of these topic areas:
- Factors that enhance or inhibit arts participation or arts/cultural assets;
- Detailed characteristics of arts participation or arts/cultural assets, and their interrelationships;
- Individual-level outcomes of arts participation, specifically outcomes corresponding with the following domains:
- social and emotional well-being,
- creativity, cognition, and learning, and
- physiological processes of health and healing
- Societal or community-level outcomes of arts/cultural assets, specifically outcomes corresponding with the following domains:
- civic and corporate innovation,
- attraction for neighborhoods and businesses, and
- national and/or state-level economic growth
NEA now also welcomes research proposals in any of three additional topic areas, as identified by the NEA’s new five-year research agenda. Those new topic areas are:
- The arts’ role in the healing and revitalization of communities;
- Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the arts; and
- The evolving arts ecology: arts organizations, venues, or places of arts learning; artists and other cultural workers; and arts consumers and learners
Funding Information
- Grants will range from $10,000 to $100,000.
- Grants generally may cover a period of performance of up to two years.
Eligibility Criteria
Official applicant organizations must be:
- Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations;
- Units of state or local government; or
- Federally recognized tribal communities or tribes.
This may include colleges and universities.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.