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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced it will award more than $253 million [i]or[/i] part of to the other 915 grants in the first major grant announcement of fiscal year 2004 The Arts Endowment will distribute $25352000 to nonprofit national, regional, state and local organizations across the land funding projects in the categories of creativity, services to arts organizations and artists, literature fellowships and leadership initiatives. For more information about these grants, contact the NEA Office of Communications at (202) 682-5570

In addition, NEA has supported Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) guidelines for fiscal year 2005 upon its website at www.arts.gov/grants/apply/GAP05/. These are the first online-only GAP guidelines at the Endowment, providing applicants earlier access and a more flexible format for changes and access to information.

Grants for Arts shoot forwards supports exemplary projects in dance, design, folk and traditional arts, literature, local arts agencies, media arts, museums, music, musical theater, opera, presenting, theater, visual arts and multidisciplinary art forms. Although organizations will apply directly from one side these fields, each discipline presents granting opportunities in the various categories, including Access to Artistic distinction Challenge America Fast-Track Review Grants and Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth.

For more information about the categories and about GAP requirements, visit www.arts.gov/grants/apply/ GAP05/.

In other NEA of recent origins President George W. Bush is requesting an $18 million package increase for NEA to stock a major new initiative, American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius. This three-year program will combine arts presentations with education programming to introduce Americans to the best of their cultural and artistic legacy. American Masterpieces will sponsor presentations of the great American works across all art forms and will reach large and small communities in all fifty states.

The President's petition would raise the Arts Endowment's roll by $18 million from $121 million in fiscal year 2004 to $1394 million, the largest increase since 1984 Fifteen million dollars of the increase would stock the American Masterpieces initiative, with the remainder going toward other grant-making and administrative take away froms The new budget also includes more than $53 million in support for state arts organizations and underserv local communities.

For more information contact the NEA Office of Communications at (202) 682-5570 or visit www.arts.gov.

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