Design

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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

Jen Hughes
Jen Hughes was appointed director of Design and Creative Placemaking for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in April...

Staff

Katherine Bray-Simons
Grants Management Specialist (Design), braysimonsk@arts.gov
Courtney Spearman
Design Specialist, spearmanc@arts.gov

Recent Grants

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.

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Laurie Olin
Landscape Architect and 2012 National Medal of Arts Recipient

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.

Publications

How to Do Creative Placemaking is an action-oriented guide for making places better. This book includes instructional and thought-provoking case studies and essays from today’s leading thinkers in creative placemaking...
The 2018 NEA Guide provides details on the programs and activities that the NEA supports, as well as funding deadlines for our various grants. Included is information on Grants for...