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article policy schedule Jun 18, 2025 visibility 11

national endowment arts budget 1741353

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a $1.4 trillion national budget that includes $162 million for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a $7.25 million increase over the previous year. This marks the largest one-year funding bump for the NEA in a decade, despite the Trump administration's repeated proposals to eliminate the agency entirely. The measure passed 297–120 in the Democrat-controlled House and also includes increases for the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and arts-based programs in the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense, and Justice.

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article policy schedule Sep 22, 2025 visibility 16 link 8 artists

Is This the Breaking Point for Museums?

Museums across the West are facing a severe funding crisis as governments slash public support. In the U.S., President Donald Trump’s deep cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in lost funding, while stock market volatility and increased endowment taxes further strain budgets. In Europe, Berlin cut €130 million from cultural funding in December 2024, and other countries face similar pressures, forcing museums to confront dwindling subsidies and shifting philanthropy.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 5, 2025 visibility 12 link 3 artists

Major show of African American quilts opening at BAMPFA — despite federal funding cuts

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is opening "Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California" on June 8, the first major museum survey of its vast African American quilt collection. The collection, bequeathed by Oakland collector Eli Leon in 2018, includes over 3,000 quilts, with 100 featured in the exhibition. The show focuses on migration during the Second Great Migration (1940–1970) and highlights artists like National Heritage Fellow Laverne Brackens, Rosie Lee Tompkins, and Arbie Williams, alongside multi-generational quilting families. The exhibition opens despite recent federal funding cuts for conservation work on the quilts.

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article policy schedule May 1, 2025 visibility 12 link 2 artists

To make up for NEH grants cancelled by Trump, Mellon Foundation gives $15m to US humanities organisations

The Mellon Foundation has announced $15 million in emergency funding for humanities councils in all 50 US states and six territories, after the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cancelled approximately $65 million in grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The NEH cuts, which affected over 6,600 local organizations, were redirected toward presidential priorities including a planned patriotic sculpture park called the "National Garden of American Heroes" and a new "Celebrate America!" grant program for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The Mellon Foundation's president, Elizabeth Alexander, stated the funds aim to preserve the operational integrity of museums, libraries, and historical societies nationwide.

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