NEA program staff is extremely helpful and willing to answer your questions! Please consider being in touch with an NEA music specialist, well before the grant deadline nears, to talk through your plans for preparing an application. Seek comments regarding your previous applications to the NEA. Whether your project was funded or not, comments will strengthen your next application. Also, please note that, after you've consulted with NEA staff, it is acceptable to submit a new, improved application for a project which has been declined in a previous application.
The following NEA staff may be contacted:
- Wayne S. Brown, Music and Opera Director 202 682 5599
- Court Burns (
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), Music Specialist (for music organizations with names beginning A-L; formerly Access to Artistic Excellence) 202 682 5590
- Anya Nykyforiak (
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), Music Specialist (for music organizations with names beginning M-Z; formerly Access to Artistic Excellence) 202 682 5487
- Erin Jenkins Waylor (
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), Challenge America Specialist 202 682 5411
- Denise Brandenburg (
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), Arts Education Specialist (formerly “Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth), Music 202 682 5044
- Laura Welsh (
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), Arts on Radio and Television 202 682 5738
