NPR: Sweeping cuts hit NEA after Trump administration calls to eliminate the agency
The Trump Administration has started canceling National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grants.
Hundreds of arts groups of various sizes across the U.S. received emails notifying them of the withdrawal and termination of their grants late on Friday. The updates, which came from a generic "arts.gov" email address, appeared in grantees' inboxes just hours after President Trump proposed eliminating the agency entirely from the federal budget.
Studio Two Three, a community arts space in Richmond, Va., shared information about a canceled $30,000 grant. "Absolutely furious," wrote Kate Fowler, the organization's director of community partnerships and development, on Instagram: "A grant we spent hours (days?) writing, submitted on time, were selected and approved for by a group of our national peers and received our acceptance letter for, was randomly revoked today. It is WILD that this administration is retroactively pulling funding."