Research Grants in the Arts support research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life.

Research Grants in the Arts provides an opportunity to engage with the National Endowment for the Arts’ five-year agenda for 2017-2021. The research agenda offers guidance on the types of study questions and topics that appeal to the agency’s long-term research goals.

We are interested in research that identifies and examines:

• Factors that enhance or inhibit arts participation or arts/cultural assets;
• Detailed characteristics of arts participation or arts/cultural assets, and their interrelationships;
• Individual-level outcomes of arts participation, specifically outcomes corresponding with the following domains:
  • social and emotional well-being
  • creativity, cognition, and learning
  • physiological processes of health and healing; and
• Societal or community-level outcomes of arts/cultural assets, specifically outcomes corresponding with the following domains:
  • civic and corporate innovation
  • attraction for neighborhoods and businesses
  • national and/or state-level economic growth

Visit https://www.arts.gov/grants/research-awards/research-grants-in-the-arts/program-description for more information.

Deadlines:

• Registration
  • SAM.gov: No later than March 8, 2021
  • Grants.gov: No later than March 19, 2021
• Part 1
  • Submit to Grants.gov: March 29, 2021
• Part 2
  • Submit to Applicant Portal: April 1 - 8, 2021