Jabarkan Ketua dari National Endowment for the Arts

1965-1969 Roger L. Stevens, ditunjuk oleh Lyndon B. Johnson

1969-1977 Nancy Hanks, ditunjuk oleh Richard M. Nixon

1977-1981 Livingston L. Biddle, Jr., ditunjuk oleh Jimmy Carter

1981-1989 Frank Hodsoll, ditunjuk oleh Ronald Reagan.

1989-1992 John Frohnmayer, ditunjuk oleh George H. W. Bush

1993-1997 Jane Alexander, ditunjuk oleh Bill Clinton

1998-2001 Bill Ivey, ditunjuk olehBill Clinton

2002 Michael P. Hammond, ditunjuk oleh George W. Bush

2003-2009 Dana Gioia, ditunjuk oleh George W. Bush

2009 Patrice Walker Powell, Ketua Petahana, ditunjuk oleh Barack Obama

2009 Rocco Landesman, ditunjuk oleh Barack Obama

National Endowment for the Humanities

Daftar organisasi musik di Amerika Serikat

National Council for the Traditional Arts

New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

Alexander, Jane. Command Performance: an Actress in the Theater of Politics. Public Affairs, a member of the Perseus Book Group; New York, NY, 2000. ISBN 0-306-81044-1

Binkiewicz, Donna M. Federalizing the Muse: United States Arts Policy and the National Endowment for the Arts, 1965-1980, University of North Carolina Press, 312pp., 2004. ISBN 0-8078-2878-5.

Napoleon, Davi. Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater This history of a theater in Brooklyn that won critical acclaim but could not always get funding to finish planned seasons is in part a case study of the arts funding crisis in America. Iowa State University Press.