Please read the message from Americans for the Arts, which is listed below: Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.Con.Res. 275, legislation designating the second week of September as “Arts in Education Week.” Authored and introduced by California Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA), this resolution is the first Congressional expression of support celebrating all the […]
By: Jacquelyn Kasuya, New York Aaron Hurst, president of the Taproot Foundation in New York, recently explained a report called “Reimagining Service,” at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service, in New York. His report was based on data compiled by a group of government, nonprofit, and corporate leaders who are working to increase the impact […]
Financial Times, 7/9/10 “In an airy, white-walled classroom in the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (Nocca), Anne Gisleson, its director of creative writing, is leafing through an anthology produced by her high school class. It was a scramble getting it together, she tells me cheerfully. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which hit Louisiana […]
July 09, 2010—Robert L. Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts, interviewed Redford at an event on June 24 at the Philadelphia Theater Company presented by the Arts & Business Council of Greater Philadelphia (an affiliate of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce) and professional services company Towers Watson. Redford spoke about his childhood, […]
Arts and Culture Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Public Broadcasting Service Announce Diversity and Innovation Fund Proposals will be accepted for development of ten episodes in a new, weekly primetime series that appeals to a racially and ethnically diverse audience between the ages of 40 and 64…. Posted on July 9, 2010 Deadline: September 15, […]
Driehaus Foundation Accepting Applications for 2010 Chicago Small Theater and Dance Funding Program Operating grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded to arts and culture organizations that have budgets of $150,000 or less and serve the Chicago metropolitan area…. Deadline: September 13, 2010 Posted: June 29, 2010 American Composers Forum Announces National Composition Contest […]
