The National Endowment for the Arts recognizes design's ever-present impact on society by funding activities that encourage, preserve, and disseminate the best in American and global design.
Design & Creative Placemaking Fact Sheet | Design & Creative Placemaking Newsletter
Staff
Design and Creative Placemaking Director
Staff
- Katherine Bray-Simons
- Grants Management Specialist (Design), braysimonsk@arts.gov
- Courtney Spearman
- Design Specialist, spearmanc@arts.gov
Recent Grants
An online grant search is available to find information on NEA grants from 2000 to the present.
National Initiatives
Mayors' Institute on City Design
MICD convenes mayors and design experts to solve the most critical planning and design challenges facing their cities.
Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design
CIRD offers funding to communities with populations of 50,000 or less to host community design workshops.
INITIATIVES
Designing Equity
A convening to address the role that design can play in building more equitable and just communities.
Industrial Design
In the past decade, industrial design has been recognized as a means to significantly increase a company’s value by adapting industrial design methodologies to a wide range of business problems through a process called design thinking.