NEA met with Grant's cuts after Trump Administration: NPR's excretion

The Trump administration has started to cancel the National Foundation for the Arts (NEA) grants.

Hundreds of art groups of various sizes in the USA received e -mails that they informed about the withdrawal and termination of their grants late Friday. The updates, which came from an e -mail address of “Art.gov”, appear only a few hours after President Trump proposed to completely remove the agency from the federal budget.

Among those affected are the Berkeley Repertory Theater, the Central Park Summer Stage in New York City and the non-profit studio project of the Chicagoer Arts Education.

“The NEA updates its priorities of scholarship policies to concentrate on projects that reflect the rich artistic heritage and creativity of the country, as prioritized by the president”, the e -mail, whose copies were shared with NPR. “As a result, we end awards that are outside of these new priorities.” The e -mail contains a line that says that the recipient can make the decision within seven days of calling.

In E -Mail, President Trump's priorities stated: “Projects that increase the country's HBCUS and HISPANIC institutions in the country, celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence, promote AI competence, enable houses to serve the houses of adoration to support the community of disaster.”

The NEA did not respond to inquiries about comments. However, the art groups have spoken out on the cuts on social media, online newsletters and in e -mails to NPR.

“The work will go on, but at the moment I'm pretty discouraged,” wrote Rob Lentz, Executive Director at Open Studio Project, On LinkedIn. According to Lentz, the two -year grant of his organization, the art for elementary school students, was canceled. “The non -profit sector is besieged by our own government and art organizations are particularly susceptible. If chaos and cruelty are the agenda, I can only demand solidarity and resistance.”

Studio two threeA community arts space in Richmond, Virginia, shared information about a canceled scholarship of $ 30,000. “Absolutely angry,” wrote Kate Fowler, the director of the organization, the director of community partnerships and development of the organization Instagram: “A scholarship that we spend hours (days?), Which were submitted on time, were selected and approved by a group of our national colleagues and receive our approach letter for the random principle. It is wild that this administration retrospectively pulls the financing retrospectively.”

In the meantime, Los Angeles has resident Cornerstone Theater CompanyThe scholarship offer worth 40,000 US dollars was withdrawn. In an e -mail to NPR, Megan Wasslass and Sunder Ganglani, the managing directors of the company and artistic directors of the company: “The grant should support our continuous investigation of the relationship between theater and the history and practice of American democracy – a project that we believe that it is a strict examination of American independence – one of the NEA changes that have changed.

The NEA is apparently disagreed. In the email, which was shared by Cornerstone to NPR, it states that the scholarship was withdrawn because it did not match the priority of the agency “to support the development and production of work developed with municipalities”.

In addition to the wave of cuts, the National Foundation for the Arts belong to a group of “small agency elimination”, which were proposed by the Trump government 2026 Budget request for discretionIn addition to the National Foundation for the Humanities and the Institute for Museum and Library Services. “The budget includes the elimination or elimination of federal financing for the following small agencies – in accordance with the efforts of the president, the size of the federal government to improve the accountability, reducing the reduction of waste and reducing unnecessary state companies have supported these elimination.

Since its foundation after the congress in 1965, the National Endowment for the Arts has granted scholarships of 5.5 billion US dollars. It is the largest art radio in the USA – one of the smallest federal authorities. It is currently financed at 207 million US dollars, which represents a tiny fraction of the overall budget. According to a NEA -Fact Sheet from 2022, the financing of the agency is 0.003% of the total federal budget.

Republican administrations have required reduction and closure in the past, even during the first Trump presidency. However, the agency has received broad bi-partisan support in the past because, like theirs Website statesIt “supports art organizations and artists in every congress district of the country”.

The grants and the proposed elimination of the agency have drawn great criticism in the entire cultural spectrum.

The elimination of the foundation itself would take a majority in the congress.

“Any attempt to reduce the national foundation for the arts – by eliminating funds, reducing employees or canceling – is deeply worrying, short -sighted and disadvantageous for our nation,” said Erin Harney, CEO of the National Arts Advocacy Organization Americans for the artsPresent In a explanation shared with NPR. “The NEA plays an important role in the life of millions of Americans and thousands of non -profit and state arts and cultural organizations that bring the history of America to life.”

Al Vincent Jr., Executive Director of the Actors' Equity Association, said: “The funding of federal art survived the last Trump administration with cross -party support because the congress understands that living arts across the country are an enormous economic creator.”

“We will fight to protect this critical financing that achieves an enormous return on capital in local communities,” he added.

Bob Suttmann, President of AFM Local 802The Musicians Union in New York said: “This is a dark day for the independence of the arts and musicians across the country – and it is an attack on American excellence and creativity.”