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Shrimp Boat Nets Grant from Creative Capital, Also 45 Non-Texas Projects Announced
Creative Capital, self decribed “premier provider of risk capital in the arts” has announced its 2012 grant recipients in visual arts and film, and the list of 46 (chosen from among 3,247 applications) includes a single Texas enterprise: Eric Leshinsky & Zach Moser’s Shrimp Boat Projects, working in and around Galveston Bay catching shrimp (occasionally) [...]
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Performers Thank God for Doris Duke: New Initiative to Grant (Another) $50 Million Over 10 Years
As a part of its new $50 million Performing Artsits Initiative, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is teaming up with Creative Capital to hand out 200 grants to performing artists. 100 individual artists, dance companies, theaters and presenters will receive big “leading artist” grants of up to $275,000, unrestricted, and not based on specific projects; [...]
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Arts writers in hard times: notes from the chopping block
Elizabeth Kramer, an arts journalist who writes for the Gannett-owned Louisville Courier-Journal, escaped massive layoffs on Tuesday, when the paper shed ten percent of its workforce. Kramer wrote on Facebook, “Layoffs today at The Courier-Journal were just awful. Out of 50 at the paper, half were from the newsroom, with several in features. I’m still [...]