National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is like a piggy bank that belongs to the whole country. It's a special bank account that the government uses to give money to people who make art.

You know how you love to color and draw pictures? Imagine if your mom or dad helped you enter a coloring contest and you won a prize! The National Endowment for the Arts is kind of like that. They help grown-up artists get money so they can make more cool art, like making music or painting pretty pictures.

The government thinks it's important to have art in our lives because it makes things more interesting and fun. So, they made the National Endowment for the Arts to give money to people who make art and help them share their art with everyone else.