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

reStart, Inc. (Kansas City, MO)
When you are living on the streets, the arts may not be your first concern. But the arts can make a difference in homeless children’s lives by nurturing their desire to learn and think creatively. And that is why reStart, Inc., an interfaith, overnight emergency shelter, began its Arts at reStart program with assistance from an NEA Learning in the Arts grant of $20,000 in FY 2006.   Read More >

Great Falls Symphony Association (Great Falls, MT)
The Great Falls Symphony Association (GFSA) includes the Great Falls Symphony Orchestra, an 80-voice symphonic choir, a regional youth orchestra, and two professional resident ensembles, the Cascade String Quartet and the Chinook Winds Quintet. These musicians travel extensively throughout Montana, presenting educational school programs and performing in both large and small communities.   Read More >

Nebraska Arts Council (Omaha, NE)
From 1990 to 1999, Nebraska’s immigrant population rose at least 50 percent, according to a study by the Urban Institute. The Nebraska Arts Council (NAC) recognized the importance of making these new diverse cultural traditions better known to the public and created the Latino Arts Initiative, designed to identify and serve Nebraska’s growing Latino arts field.   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 six 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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