NEA Spotlight: An in-depth look at NEA-funded projects
November 2008
 

Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI)
Covering nearly 3,000 years of history, the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Native- American art collection includes pieces from North, Central, and South America. Spacing issues, however, have hampered the museum’s ability to show these sculptures, ceramics, and textiles in their entirety. Until now.   Read More >

Minnesota Opera Company (Minneapolis, MN)
Operas such as Tosca and La Traviata are performed with ruthless regularity, but the Minnesota Opera Company is committed to producing one new work and one worthy rarity each year. As a result, two operas made their United States debuts during the 2006–2007 season. One was brand new, the other was 160 years old.   Read More >

Mississippi Department of Archives and History (Jackson, MS)
In 1975, writer Eudora Welty sat down in front of filmmaker Richard O. Moore’s camera for five hours and read from her famous short stories. She also talked about the craft of writing and about the rich tradition of writing in the South. From that five hours of footage, Moore selected five minutes of Welty’s voice to include in his NEA-funded documentary, The Writer in America.   Read More >

Public Displays of Art: Creative Time Fosters Art in the Public Realm (New York, NY)
For more than 30 years the New York City-based arts organization Creative Time has curated arts projects that engage artists and communities in a public dialogue, including "Tribute in Light," the twin beacons of light that illuminated Ground Zero as a memorial 6 months after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. According to executive director Anne Pasternak, Creative Time works with artists to create public art that is "timely and thought-provoking, new and adventurous."   Read More >

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