NEA Awards $60,000 To Artpace For Artist-In-Residence Program
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced yesterday that Artpace San Antonio is recommended for a $60,000 NEA Art Works grant to support its core International Artist-in-Residence program. Artpace is one of 832 recipients nationwide. “The Endowment’s grant provides crucial support for Artpace’s core residency program,” says Artpace Executive Director Amada Cruz. “The [...]
Arts People is Good People, Says New NEA-Funded Study- Or At Least They Were in 2002
A new study, Impact of the Arts on Individual Contributions to U.S Civil Society, by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests a link between engagement in the arts and community involvement, altruism, and tolerance. The study analyzed data collected way back in 2002 from 2765 people in the General Social Survey (GSS), [...]
Model City for the New Face of America Gets $50,000 for Transit Stop Engagement Process
The NEA has selected UTSA’s College of Architecture for a $50,000 grant to develop a transit stop near the redeveloped Tobin Center for the Performing Arts in San Antonio. The grant will fund a seres of public discussions in the fall aimed at developing concepts for the new transit center. According to the city’s press [...]
Houston’s Nameless Sound Awarded National Grants from NEA and NALAC
Houston creative music org Nameless Sound was named as one of 788 not-for-profits to receive an NEA Art Works grant. Nameless Sound will get $12,500 grant to support its ongoing programming and education efforts. “Our first-ever grant from the NEA is more than a new source of funding,” said Nameless Sound Director David Dove. “Receiving [...]
Surprise! Obama’s 2013 Budget Doesn’t Axe the Arts; Gator Pool Frothing in Anticipation
The president’s 2013 “re-election budget” has got my vote: Allen Keckonen of the San Antonio Art Festivals Examiner has waded through the numbers and concludes that last fall’s cuts for the NEA and NEH have been largely offset by 5.5% budget increases this time around! Of course, it’s just a proposal, if it dances across [...]
Texas’ Slice of the NEA Pie , 2012
Along with symphonies, dance companies, and theater groups, visual arts projects in Texas got a share of the 863 National Endowment for the Arts Grants in various categories announced last week: In Houston, The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston received $21,000 for the group exhibition Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, organized by CAMH Senior [...]
Glasstire founder waves the online arts journalism banner in new NEA blog
Glasstire founder Rainey Knudson’s has been invited to blog on the NEA’s website; in her first post she explains the alarming decline among print journalists who have been, like dinosaurs, suffering a mass extinction over the past half-decade. Continuing her fatalistic thought into the future, she foretells the doom of even mildly discursive writing online: [...]
Covert Ops: blogger’s conspiracy theory has NEA funding individuals through artistic excellence awards
Real Clear Arts applauds what it sees as the NEA’s back-door efforts to get public money into the hands of individual artists through residency programs, after their direct grants fell victim to Jesse Helms and the culture wars of the 1990′s. NEA chief Rocco Landesman has said that he would like the agency to once [...]
El Paso, Houston, Marfa and San Angelo get NEA Our Town grants
Last week the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town program announced $6.575 million in grants to 51 communities. Among them are four projects in Texas: the city of El Paso gets $25,000 to support the design of a pedestrian green space between the Union Plaza Entertainment District to the Cultural Arts District downtown, replacing [...]
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 [...]