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• Performance artist Tim Miller -- one of the NEA Four -- in Aus...

  
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  Performance artist Tim Miller — one of the so-called ‘NEA Four’ — is coming to Austin Jan. 29-31 for three performances at the Vortex. read more
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• A Closer Look: Where NEA and NEH Grants Are Going, And One Wish

  
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  Both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities announced new rounds of grants in recent days, and both are worth a closer look. The NEH is sending $20 million to 319 projects in 45 states. Lots of the awards, as usual, are small -- $5,000 here, $6,000 there -- made to ...
  4 days ago

• A Snap Shot of Public Participation in Visual Arts

  
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  On Thursday, December 10, 2009, The National Endowment for the Arts released the 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, which is a periodic survey that tracks adults’ reported levels of arts engagement. On December 10, 2009, the Arts Endowment hosted a three-hour roundtable discussion about the ...
  5 days ago

• Music in Review: Stations of the Crossover

  
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  Is jazz doomed? Since 1982, the median age of jazz listeners has increased from 29 to 46 while diminishing in size by nearly a third, according to a recent National Endowment for the Arts survey. While some argue that those numbers aren’t trustworthy, what’s clear is that most music listeners consider jazz a ...
  6 days ago

• NEA releases list of Florida recipients

  
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  The National Endowment for the Arts has released a list of Florida arts groups that have received NEA grants. Not a lot of Central Florida groups here. (OK, somebody explain to me why that is.) Take a look here: FY 2010 Grant Awards: State Listings Access to Artistic Excellence | Challenge America Fast-Track ...
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• Survey Says…

  
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  Did you miss that performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the arts center last month? Or the oboe concerto recital at the concert hall? Well it looks like you weren’t the only one. Last week, a new report from the National Endowment for the Arts presented a rather grim picture of the state of ...
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• NEA grants workshop set for Jan. 6

  
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  Here’s info from Rep. Alan Grayson on a National Endowment for the Arts grants workshop, which is scheduled for Jan. 6 at Orlando Rep: Congressman Alan Grayson in Conjunction with  United Arts of Central Florida & the NEA: I wanted to let you know that you can take advantage of a grants workshop on ...
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• Museums and YouTube: Spreading Video of Art

  
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  No doubt about it: the research released by the National Endowment for the Arts last week on arts participation is eye-opening. In its entire 104 pages, theres hardly any good news and only a few hopeful signs. And believe me, I searched. I took one morsel of hope, though, and made an anecdotal survey of how ...
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• Friday Scatter: Remembering Izquierdo and Hoving

  
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  An arts scene is a movable feast, a passing parade of people and ideas. Today’s Portland is vastly different from the big town of the 1950s to the 1980s, when the scene was small and sometimes rowdy but seemed somehow containable, as if you could experience all of it if you tried hard enough. Impossible to even ...
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• The NEA’s Arts Participation Survey

  
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  The NEA has released its full research report, 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (that link will take you to a downloadable PDF — but stock your printer, it’s more than 100 pages long). And earlier today, they streamed a live webcast discussing the results (the webcast will be made available online ...
  2 weeks ago

• National Endowment for the Arts: Survey of Arts Habits

  
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  My goodness. I’m in a very, very large minority. Of course helps that I work in this field of course, but even before that I went to concerts and art galleries and the theater. I probably do something close to once a week!!! (And if you add in professional appearances, um, several times most weeks!) [...]
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• Arts Groups Happy to Have a Friend in White House

  
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  PND , December 9, 2009 As he nears the end of his first year in office, Barack Obama can count the largest infusion of cultural funding in decades as one of his signal achievements, the Associated Press reports. And though arts advocates say it is still less than what is needed, they are hopeful the president will ...
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• The Big Read Initiative

  
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  It was so cold last week that I had to dig out the big coat . Winter officially starts in two weeks and for me that means its reading season. Not that I dont read the rest of the year, it just always seems I read more in the winter.  read more
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• N.E.H. Chairman Starts Civility Tour on Tuesday

  
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  Jim Leach, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will visit Concord, N.H., on Tuesday and all 50 states over the next 18 months to discuss civil discourse in American society.
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• NEA Offering Grants up to $20,000 for Library Reading Programs

  
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  Received a handsome postcard in this morning’s snail mail—a reminder that the National Endowment for the Arts is still accepting applications from nonprofit organizations to conduct month-long, communitywide reads through June 2011. Called “The Big Read,” the program offers grants ranging from $2,500 to ...
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• Already Struggling, Artists Hit Hard by Recession, Survey Finds

  
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  PND News, November 30, 2009 A new survey of American artists — two-thirds of whom say they earned less than $40,000 and a third less than $20,000 last year — found that slightly more than half experienced a drop in income in 2009, the New York Times reports. Commissioned by nonprofit artist-support ...
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• National Endowment for the Arts Cultural Workforce Forum Held November 20th

  
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  On Friday, November 20th, 2009, the NEA hosted a discussion of how art works as part of the real economy. Academics, foundation professionals, and service organization representatives came together to discuss improving the collection and reporting of statistics about arts and cultural workers, and to develop future ...
  4 weeks ago

• SOMOS News

  
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  Image via Wikipedia SOMOS WEEKLIES THE BIG READ Continues..... SOMOS BOOK CLUB Update On Tuesday, December 1 st , 2009, we will be discussing Willa Cather’s epic classic, “ Death Comes for the Archbishop ” from 6:30 – 8 p.m. (note new time) at the Somos ...
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• A new book: “Georgia Masterpieces: Selected Works from Georgia’s Museums”

  
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  B y CATHERINE FOX The Georgia Council for the Arts   has become a publisher. It hopes to boost recognition of the states artists and museums through "Georgia Masterpieces: Selected Works from Georgias Museums." ...
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