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Council on the Arts outlines apprenticeships, Arts Across the Prairie installations and NEA funding match requirement

5873076 · September 24, 2025
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The director of the North Dakota Council on the Arts updated the Legislative committee on apprenticeship grants, a federal-state NEA match requirement, Arts Across the Prairie public-art installations in three regions and targeted investments in creative aging and arts-in-education programming.

Jessica C., director of the North Dakota Council on the Arts, briefed the committee on programs and funding priorities for the biennium.

Jessica C. said the council's enabling statute is recorded in the North Dakota Century Code (54-54-01) and that roughly half the council's budget is federal National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) funding that requires a dollar-for-dollar state match. "This match is crucial: if we receive $1 less in our state appropriation match, we get zero federal dollars," she said.

The Council projects awarding more than…

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