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National Council On The Arts Convenes for 152nd Meeting
July 14, 2004
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Contact:
Victoria Hutter
202-682-5570
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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 Friday, July 16, 2004 in Room M-09 of The Nancy Hanks Center, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,Washington, D.C. On the agenda is a presentation from author and poet Marilyn Nelson on the NEA’s Operation Homecoming. Ms. Nelson is one of the participating authors in this NEA program designed to encourage returning U.S. troops to write about their wartime experiences.
Following Ms. Nelson will be a presentation on Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America. This research report published by the NEA’s Office of Research & Analysis focuses on the decline in the reading of literature among U.S. adults and has garnered significant attention since its release on July 8.
The remainder of the schedule is as follows:
9:00-10:00 a.m. |
Chairman's opening remarks/updates
Government Affairs & budget updates
Viewing of Why Shakespeare? video
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10:00-10:30 a.m. |
PRESENTATION: Operation Homecoming
Author and poet Marilyn Nelson
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10:30-11:00 a.m. |
PRESENTATION: Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America.
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10:15-10:45 a.m. |
NEA Jazz Masters program update featuring 2004 NEA Jazz Master Herbie Hancock |
11:00-11:15 a.m. |
BREAK |
11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
PRESENTATION: NEA/State & Regional Partnerships
* Tog Newman, North Carolina Arts Council Board
Chair
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Robert Booker, Minnesota State Arts Board
Executive Director
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David Fraher, Arts Midwest Executive Director
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Jonathan Katz, National Assembly of State Arts
Agencies, President and CEO
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12:00-12:15 p.m. |
Application review and voting, guidelines review and voting |
12:15-12:30 p.m. |
General discussion |
12:30 p.m. |
Adjourn |
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.
Teresa Lozano Long, Patron/Trustee, Austin, Tex.
James McBride, Author/Musician, Carversville, PA
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, U.S. Congress
House of Representatives
Rep. Cass Ballenger, (R-NC)
Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, (R-CA)
Rep. Betty McCollum, (D-MN)
Senate
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)
Sen. Robert Bennett (R-UT)
Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH)
For more information about the National Council on the Arts and its Members, visit http://www.arts.gov/about/NCA/About_NCA.html
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