Agency Contacts

If you have questions about your application, please use the list below to determine your appropriate staff contact. We also encourage you to check the "Frequently Asked Questions" for information.

For Access to Artistic Excellence, contact the staff for the field/discipline that is most appropriate for your project:

Dance (including dance presentation): ottlongj@arts.gov or 202/682-5739

Design (including planning, urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, product design, and graphic design): begleys@arts.gov or 202/682-5796

Folk & Traditional Arts: mansfieldw@arts.gov or 202/682-5678, bergeyb@arts.gov or 202/682-5726

Literature: stollsa@arts.gov or 202/682-5771

Local Arts Agencies [Local arts agencies generally are referred to as arts councils, departments of cultural affairs, or arts commissions. While the majority are private entities, others are public municipal, county, or regional agencies that operate in cooperation with mayors and city managers. Local arts agencies generally make grant awards directly to both artists and arts organizations, present programming to the public, manage cultural facilities, provide services to artists and arts organizations, and facilitate community cultural planning. Statewide assemblies and cultural service organizations that work specifically with local arts agencies also are eligible. Projects may be in any discipline(s) or for any type of constituent service.]:
wallsd@arts.gov or 202/682-5586

Media Arts: Film/Radio/Television: smithm@arts.gov or 202/682-5742

Museums (including projects in any discipline that are submitted by a museum):
bancroftd@arts.gov or 202/682-5576                      

Music (including music presentation)
Organizations with names that begin A through L: burnsc@arts.gov or 202/682-5590
Organizations with names that begin M through Z: nykyfora@arts.gov or 202/682-5487

Musical Theater: denegree@arts.gov or 202/682-5509, lanouxc@arts.gov or 202/682-5020

Opera: paulg@arts.gov or 202/682-5600

Presenting (multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, and interdisciplinary projects):
lims@arts.gov or 202/682-5658

Theater (including theater presentation): denegree@arts.gov or 202/682-5509, lanouxc@arts.gov or 202/682-5020

Visual Arts (including painting, sculpture/installation, crafts, photography, printmaking, drawing, public art, and newer forms/mediums such as video, computer, and Internet-based work): clarkw@arts.gov or 202/682-5555

For Challenge America: Reaching Every Community Fast-Track Review Grants, contact the staff at fasttrack@arts.gov or 202/682-5700.

For Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth, contact the Learning in the Arts staff for the field/discipline below that is most appropriate for your project:

Dance, Music, Opera: brandenburg@arts.gov or 202/682-5044

Literature, Media Arts, Musical Theater, Theater: daughern@arts.gov or
202/682-5521

Folk & Traditional Arts, Multidisciplinary, Presenting: liut@arts.gov or 202/682-5690

Design, Local Arts Agencies, Museums, Visual Arts: beattied@arts.gov or
202/682-5688

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506