Contact the NEA

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:

• Ann Meier Baker (bakera@arts.gov), Director of Music and Opera, 202 682 5455  
• Court Burns (burnsc@arts.gov), Music Specialist (for music organizations with names beginning A-L), 202 682 5590
• Anya Nykyforiak (nykyfora@arts.gov), Music Specialist (for music organizations with names beginning M-Z), 202 682 5487
• Challenge America Specialist, challengeamerica@arts.gov or 202 682 5700
• Denise Brandenburg (brandenburg@arts.gov), Arts Education Specialist, Music, 202 682 5044
• Sarah Metz (metzs@arts.gov) or 202-682-5511; Sarah Burford (burfords@arts.gov) or 202-682-5591 for Media Arts