Description of document: Congressional Appropriations (Budget) Requests for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), FY 2008-FY 2013 Request date: 2013 Released date: 07-November-2013 Posted date: 03-November-2014 Source of document: FOIA Requests Office of General Counsel National Endowment for the Arts 400 7th Street, SW Washington, DC 20506 Fax: 202/682-5572(fax) Email: [email protected] The governmentattic.org web site (“the site”) is noncommercial and free to the public. The site and materials made available on the site, such as this file, are for reference only. The governmentattic.org web site and its principals have made every effort to make this information as complete and as accurate as possible, however, there may be mistakes and omissions, both typographical and in content. 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Flippins Paralegal Specialist, Office of General Counsel National Endowment for the Arts 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 608 Washington, DC 20506-001 Appropriations Request For Fiscal Year 2008 Submitted to the Congress February 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Appropriations Request for Fiscal Year 2008 Submitted to the Congress February 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Overview......................................................................... 1 II. Access to Artistic Excellence ....................................... 19 III. Learning in the Arts ...................................................... 27 IV. Partnerships for the Arts ............................................... 33 V. Impact........................................................................... 39 VI. Program Support........................................................... 73 VII. Salaries and Expenses................................................... 79 www.arts.gov BLANK PAGE National Endowment for the Arts - Appropriations Request for FY 2008 OVERVIEW The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to submit its budget request of $128.412 million for FY 2008 (see Tables 1, 2, and 3 at the end of this section), which includes: $102.942 million for grant-making activities: • $61.765 million for Direct Endowment Grants • $41.177 million for State/Regional Partnerships $1.636 million for program support efforts, and $23.834 million for salaries and expenses. Mission The National Endowment for the Arts is a unique agency in the wide array of federal institutions. It was created in 1965 to nurture American creativity, to elevate the nation’s culture, and to sustain and preserve the country’s many artistic traditions. The Arts Endowment’s mission is to spread this artistic bounty throughout the land – from the dense and hectic streets of our largest cities to the vast rural spaces – so that every citizen may enjoy the great legacy of American art. The Arts Endowment’s mission is: To support excellence in the arts, both new and established; bring the arts to all Americans; and provide leadership in arts education. The roots of this mission stem from the early days of the Republic when our Founding Fathers recognized the arts as critical to improving the human condition and building a new nation. Anticipating the role of the arts in our national life, George Washington wrote to the Rev. Joseph Willard in 1781: The arts and sciences are essential to the prosperity of the state and to the ornament and happiness of human life. They have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind. - 1 - National Endowment for the Arts - Appropriations Request for FY 2008 Overview Budget Objectives and Strategies The justification for the FY 2008 budget is based upon the agency’s four-pronged commitment to artistic excellence, public accessibility, arts education, and partnership. These core objectives are carried out through the following strategies: • Maintain a commitment to artistic excellence in all decision-making. • Nurture creation of excellent art in all arts disciplines through support of projects, programs, workshops, and activities by the awarding of direct grants and through partnerships with the State Arts Agencies (SAAs) and their Regional Arts Organizations (RAOs). • Provide national recognition to exemplary artists by the awarding of honorifics such as the NEA Jazz Masters award. • Provide opportunities for Americans, regardless of where they live, to benefit from the arts by ensuring wide geographic reach of our programs, including through support of radio and television projects. • Assist communities to provide arts education programs by identifying and supporting model arts education projects. • Implement a limited number of National Initiatives, multi-faceted programs of indisputable artistic quality and merit, with broad national reach and multi-media educational materials that demonstrate the value and importance of the arts and arts education to the American people. • Revitalize the role of reading literature in American popular culture and bring the transformative power of literature into the lives of more Americans through the Big Read, the literary component of the American Masterpieces initiative. • Provide focused leadership and careful management to improve agency performance and productivity. American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius The leadership provided by the National Endowment for the Arts during the past 40 years has led to a renaissance in the arts in the United States and ensured their availability in all corners of the nation. This renaissance has enhanced creativity and elevated the quality of artistic achievement. It has also produced enormous economic benefit, contributing substantially to local economies. - 2 - National Endowment for the Arts - Appropriations Request for FY 2008 Overview Today, Arts Endowment grants generate approximately $600 million annually in support for the arts from other sources. Since 1986 (the year we began capturing such information in our automated grants system), the Arts Endowment’s discretionary grants have generated an investment of some $13 billion in support from the public and private sectors. Yet, new generations are unfamiliar with the significant artistic and cultural achievements of our nation. Many adults and young people have few opportunities in school or daily life to learn about the arts or acquire skills to appreciate or participate in them. To address this challenge, the Arts Endowment established the American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius initiative to acquaint Americans with the best of their cultural and artistic legacy. Through American Masterpieces, the National Endowment for the Arts sponsors performances, exhibitions, tours, and educational programs that showcase acknowledged masterpieces across all art forms and that reach communities – large and small – in all 50 States. Under American Masterpieces, the Agency is committed to supporting projects of: Indisputable artistic quality and merit Broad national reach; and that include Multi-media educational materials consistent with arts education standards. American Masterpieces, begun as a pilot program in 2005, initially awarded grants for the mounting and touring of exhibitions showcasing the extraordinary and rich evolution of the visual arts in the United States. Eleven grants awarded that year provided an estimated four million people in 45 communities access to art of the highest quality, that otherwise would not have been available to their community. An additional 16 exhibitions were supported in FY 2006, with an expectation of reaching 1.7 million people at 72 venues in 22 States. One of the exhibitions, “Native Views: Influence of Modern Culture,” presenting contemporary Native American arts accompanied by Native artisans, traveled onboard Artrain USA. As