National Endowment for the Arts - Obama Presidency Oral History National Endowment for the Arts Index / Organizations Transcripts Melody Barnes ...thinking about arts and humanities—the National Endowment for the Arts , that was being run by Rocc... Rob Nabors ...for that ten million dollars at the National Endowment for the Arts . You're missing the big picture. An... Pete Rouse ...A lot of this was done through the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for th... Jeremy Bernard ...hands on with the NEH, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts [NEA] . I think I spent a lot of th... Bill T. Jones ...funding as represented by the NEA [ National Endowment for the Arts ].” So that's where that work wa... Elizabeth Alexander ...an aura for boosting funding for NEA [ National Endowment for the Arts ] and the Smithsonian [Institution]... Bill Ivey ...administration, the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts [NEA], and relevant to this interview... ...had the opportunity to work with the National Endowment for the Arts as a consultant for panelists for a... Jane Chu ...Jane Chu who was the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts [NEA] in the [Barack H.] Obama [II... ...really I could see prepared me for the National Endowment for the Arts —was that because this project was s... ...Arts Center, certainly with the National Endowment for the Arts , the question for me is can I stand i... ...what about your colleagues within the National Endowment for the Arts ? Were you able to bring in anyone t... ...the reach of the arts through the National Endowment for the Arts across the nation. And you've got ... ...there any product? Yes. Out of the National Endowment for the Arts , what we did at the time is that w... ...one of the things that we did at the National Endowment for the Arts is we were able to get an increase i... ...network that was critical to the National Endowment for the Arts has been the state arts councils, th... ...in the budget, forty percent of the National Endowment for the Arts ' budget goes to the states, i... ...to the grants directly from the National Endowment for the Arts . Our active relationship with that i... ...that is a distinction. Because in the National Endowment for the Arts , it was really seen as the stat... ...One of the things that we did at the National Endowment for the Arts —because we were seeing that art... ...grants that were far larger than the National Endowment for the Arts typically or traditionally has given... ...many zeroes are— Oh, you know, the National Endowment for the Arts , unlike the National Endowment for th... ...to multiple places. The size of the National Endowment for the Arts averaged twenty-five to thirty thousan... ...It gave the entities that received National Endowment for the Arts grants some kind of a seal of approval... ...we, for lack of a better term, used the National Endowment for the Arts grants to spark vitality but not—w... ...the match, because since nearly every National Endowment for the Arts grant requires a one-to-one match, i... ...as important as what you do. While the National Endowment for the Arts is an independent federal agency, no... ...be activities that we would, at the National Endowment for the Arts , sponsor because the President'... ...under the financial jurisdiction of the National Endowment for the Arts . We knew about many activities an... ...And the way it worked for us at the National Endowment for the Arts is that we would submit a list o... ...be present or make a difference? In the National Endowment for the Arts , it's really about, Get out there a... ...And it really was just about what the National Endowment for the Arts does— “Please ask me any questions yo... ...I would draw images of things that the National Endowment for the Arts funded. And when I came back, I woul... ...which have a budget far larger than the National Endowment for the Arts . But the process that's involved i... ...process that's involved in terms of the National Endowment for the Arts grants involving experts from al... ...That is representative of what the National Endowment for the Arts grants were to be, which is access fo... ...a profound impact.” When I came to the National Endowment for the Arts , we already found service member... ...that meant so much to me as part of the National Endowment for the Arts , if I could, as a way to conclude. I... Show more... Related Topics go to the Gun Control Gun Control go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation go to the Agriculture Agriculture go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism go to the Black Politics Black Politics