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Sep 28, 2022

In a wood-panneled home, eight Black folx sing, wearing denim while sitting on some stairs.

Ten Theater Ensembles Receive National Theater Project Awards

Sep 28, 2022

Six dancers hold a woman, who extends her arms, up above them.

NEFA’s National Dance Project Announces 20 Production Grants

Sep 14, 2022

A young Chinese woman with long dark hair and wearing a lavender sweater smiles as she poses next to her painting

From the CreativeGround Up: NEFA Re-launches Creative Sector Database

Sep 12, 2022

Leilani is a light-skinned woman, who wears a floral headband that holds back her long dark hair, thick framed dark glasses, and a floral shirt. She smiles and sticks her tongue out ever so slightly.

NEFA Appoints New Theater Program Officer

Jul 29, 2022

Outside, at a downtown shopping center, two folks lean into each other while dancing. Other folks of different backgrounds and identities watch and dance too.

Boston Artists Invite Everyone to “Wild Rumpus”

Jun 24, 2022

A collage of squares in NEFA orange, yellow, and teal - where two of the squares are replaced with smiling portraits of Chris and Dawn.

NEFA’s Board of Directors Elects Two New Members

Jun 2, 2022

A Black woman and a little Black girl hold a bubble wand with a huge bubble expanding out of the wand.

Boston Artists Invite Everyone to Celebrate Joy and Liberation in Downtown Boston for Juneteenth

Jun 1, 2022

NEFA Appoints COO Jug Chokshi as Interim Executive Director

May 3, 2022

A mural on a brick wall of a pair of hands holding a flower with a green cut gem on top over a background of yellow shapes on a gray wall.

Announcing the 2022 Newell Flather Awards for Leadership in Public Art

Apr 21, 2022

A dancer, a singer, and a group of dancers with large flowers are collaged together.

New Work New England Awards Second Round

Feb 2, 2022

A white woman with shoulder length dark hair wearing a red turtleneck standing in front of white clapboards

NEFA Executive Director Cathy Edwards to Step Down in May '22

Jan 25, 2022

bird's-eye view of a colorful picnic blanket topped with black trays holding photographs, collages, scrabble tiles, fruit and flowers.

NEFA Deepens Funding for More Vibrant and Just Public Artmaking

Jan 20, 2022

Collage where a man in a green dress sings into a microphone, women of color (in black dresses and holding white balloons) walk through a park, and a woman with dark hair lifts her arms and legs,

New England Now to showcase the breadth of New England Dance

Jan 20, 2022

Three portraits: one lady with short curly hair, another with long gray/brown hair, and one man playing a brass instrument.

NEFA’s Advisory Council Welcomes Three New Members

Nov 29, 2021

Jess wears glasses and has reddish, auburn hair. She smiles.

NEFA Expands Public Art Department

Oct 29, 2021

Five performers sing behind a puppet that is handled by two of them.

Cultural Nonprofits Awarded New England Arts Resilience Funds

Oct 21, 2021

An older gentleman is seated in the center and two young woman crouch down to pose together.

Reflections on Newell Flather (1938-2021)

Sep 16, 2021

At sunset, four women, in overalls, dance in front of telephone lines.

Twenty New Dance Works Receive Annual National Dance Project Awards

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