National Council on the Arts Convenes for 150th Meeting

November 10, 2003

		Contact: Victoria Hutter 202-682-5570

Washington, D.C. -- The National Council on the Arts, the advisory body of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), will meet in a public session on Thursday, November 13, 2003 in Room M-09 of The Nancy Hanks Center, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. On the agenda is a presentation from Douglas Sonntag, Dance Director, on the agency's latest dance research report, Raising the Barre. Media Arts Director, Ted Libbey, will also present an update of the Arts Endowment's Classical Music on Radio initiative, and Ed Dickey, State and Regional Arts Director, will report on the current status of the state arts agencies around the country.

Two students from the Duke Ellington School of Music in Washington, D.C. will present recitations of Shakespeare for the Council in celebration of the NEA's ongoing Shakespeare in American Communities tour. This is the largest tour of Shakespeare in American history, bringing professional Shakespeare productions and related educational activities to more than 100 small and mid-sized communities in all 50 states and 16 military bases.

AGENDA FOR OPEN SESSION:

9:00-9:30 am

Chairman's opening remarks/updates

9:30-10:00 am

Government Affairs & Budget updates

10:00-10:30 am

Application & Guidelines Review/Voting

10:30-10:45 am

BREAK

10:45-11:00 pm

PERFORMANCE: Duke Ellington School/Shakespeare

11:00-11:45 am

PRESENTATIONS: Directors' Reports

• Dance (Douglas Sonntag) - Raising the Barre: Economic Trends of Nonprofit Dance Companies. This NEA report released in September 2003 examines the growth and decline in the number of dance companies, their geographic concentration, and the generation of earned and unearned income.
• Media Arts (Ted Libbey) - Classical Music on Radio Initiative, carried out by Minnesota Public Radio, is designed to develop the next generation of classical music programming for public radio, by bringing classical music producers, musicians, critics, and other experts together to assess classical music programming and to develop new program ideas and strategies.
• Partnership (Ed Dickey)- an update on the status of the country's state arts agencies.

11:45 am-12:00 pm

Concluding Remarks/Adjournment

Members of the National Council on the Arts

Donald V. Cogman, Patron/Trustee, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Mary Costa, Opera Singer, Knoxville, Tenn.
Gordon Davidson, Theater Center Director/Producer, Los Angeles, Calif.
Katharine Cramer DeWitt, Patron/Trustee, Cincinnati, Ohio
Makoto Fujimura, Visual Artist, New York, N.Y.
David H. Gelernter, Author/Critic/Educator, Woodbridge, Conn.
Nathan Leventhal, Attorney/Consultant, Woodbury, Conn.
Teresa Lozano Long, Patron/Trustee, Austin, Tex.
Maribeth Walton McGinley, Art Director/Designer, Glendale, Calif.
Cleo Parker Robinson, Dance Company Director/Choreographer, Denver, Colo.
Jerry Pinckney, Artist/Illustrator, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Deedie Potter Rose, Patron/Trustee, Dallas, Tex.
Dr. Karen Lias Wolff, Music Educator, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Ex-Officio Members, United States Congress
House of Representatives
Rep. Cass Ballenger, (R-NC)
Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, (R-CA)
Rep. Betty McCullum, (D-MN)

Senate
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)
Sen. Robert Bennett (R-UT)
Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH)

For more information on the National Council on the Arts, including biographies of its members, please visit http://www.arts.gov/about/NCA/About_NCA.html

For more information, contact the NEA Office of Communications at 202-682-5570.

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