One nice thing about the national budget process just completed in Washington is something it didn’t include: bitter quarrels over money for the arts. As some have joked, the word “emba… ...

Between 2011 and 2016, the NEA made four grants totaling $145,000, which Zabel says helped Springboard leverage an additional $1.155 million in local and national private philanthropy — about a ...

Chicago pianist Ramsey Lewis has won what is widely considered the nation’s highest jazz honor: He has been named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts.The citation, which carries ...

With the addition of bassist Stanley Clarke, saxophonist Donald “Big Chief” Harrison Jr., drummer Billy Hart and vocalist Cassandra Wilson, the number of NEA Jazz Masters now reaches 165 — a ...