We are proud to be included in this funding announcement as an organization approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Research Grant! We will receive $35,000 to support a mixed-methods study exploring the impacts of an intersectional racial justice training program for arts leaders in Massachusetts.
In total, the NEA will award 18 Research Grants in the Arts for a total of $1,045,000 in funding to support a broad range of research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecosystem or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life.
NEA Director of Research & Analysis Sunil Iyengar said, “The research undertaken by these NEA grant recipients, including Arts Connect International, covers a compelling array of fields and topics. The studies will contribute to a formidable body of research that is strengthening public knowledge about the arts’ benefits to our lives and communities.”
For more information on other projects included in the NEA’s grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news. Visit arts.gov/impact/research to explore more of the NEA’s work in research and analysis, including the agency’s five-year research agenda; in-depth reports and analyses of research topics in the arts; collections of statistics, graphics, and summary results from data-mining about the arts; and more.