NEA Names New Media Arts Director

The National Endowment for the Arts has named Jax Deluca its new director of media arts beginning on January 11, 2016. Deluca will manage NEA grantmaking in the NEA’s division. An adjunct media arts instructor at SUNY Buffalo, she has also served as executive director of Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center in Buffalo, NY, where she oversaw major expansion efforts. She recently finished a three-year tenure as a grant reviewer and advisory panelist to the New York State Council on the Arts Electronic Media and Film program.

The NEA’s media arts program focuses on screen-based projects presented via film, television, radio, audio, video, the Internet, interactive and mobile technologies, and video games—as well as media-related printed books, catalogues, and journals.

Projects supported by recent media-arts grants include the radio program “Afropop Worldwide” and an effort to preserve videos from the 1970s New York television show “Cinema Forum.”