The Congressional Arts Caucus and Senate Cultural Caucus are in the process of collecting signatures of members of Congress who are supportive of funding the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) at $170 million in the fiscal year (FY) 2021. Please take two minutes to request that your U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators sign onto the letter. These "Dear Colleague" letters mean congressional appropriators have started the cycle for the FY 2021 appropriations process. In each of the FY 2018, FY 2019, and FY 2020 cycles, the Trump administration sought to eliminate the NEA; however, Congress strongly rejected that proposal on a bipartisan basis each year, and actually increased NEA funding every year. In fact, FY 2020 saw the largest increase in funding for the NEA in six years and the highest level of funding for the Endowment in a decade! This increase can be attributed, in part, to the tremendous grassroots advocacy of arts advocates last year. This year, Americans for the Arts and our arts colleagues are urging Congress to fund the NEA and the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) at a level of $170 million for FY 2021. Currently, Congressional Arts Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY) are leading the NEA funding request letter in the U.S. House, and Senate Cultural Caucus Co-Chair Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) is leading the NEA/NEH funding request letter in the U.S. Senate. Take two minutes now to request that your Congressional leaders sign onto the letters to show their support for the NEA and the arts in your communities! 1000 Vermont Avenue NW 6th Floor Washington DC . 20005 T 202.371.2830 F 202.371.0424 One East 53rd Street . 2nd Floor New York NY . 10022 T 212.223.2787 F 212.980.4857 info@artsusa.org www.AmericansForTheArts.org www.ArtsActionFund.org If you were forwarded this email from a friend, click here to subscribe to receive alerts!