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What We Talk About When We Talk About the Arts

December 16, 2009
December 16, 2009 Washington, DC The archives of the two recent NEA webcasts are now available in the Research section of the NEA website. The Cultural Workforce Forum was a day-long series of presentations and discussions about America's artists, other cultural workers, and how art works as a...

Arts Participation Webcast

December 10, 2009
December 10, 2009 Washington, DC Today, the National Endowment for the Arts is hosting a live webcast of a roundtable discussion convened by NEA Senior Deputy Chairman Joan Shigekawa. The webcast will run from at 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 pm (EST) The event brings together representatives of national arts...

Survey of Public Participation in the Arts

December 8, 2009
December 8, 2009 Washington, DC This Thursday, December 10, the Arts Endowment will release the 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts , the nation’s largest and most representative study of adults’ arts participation habits. To highlight the release, a roundtable discussion is...

Bess Lomax Hawes (1921-2009)

December 3, 2009
December 3, 2009 Washington, DC Bess Lomax Hawes. Photo by Michael Geissinger, NEA file photo It is with great sadness that we report that Bess Lomax Hawes passed away on Friday evening, November 27. A lifetime advocate of how *art works* in communities across the nation, Bess was the Director of...

Carve out time to visit a museum

November 26, 2009
November 26, 2009 Washington, DC Chairman Rocco Landesman will be in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, over the Thanksgiving weekend as part of the Art Works tour. While there he will visit the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts . "I am thankful that we have so many wonderful museums across...

NEA Cultural Workforce Forum Archive

November 25, 2009
November 25, 2009 Washington, DC The November 20, 2009, NEA Cultural Workforce Forum archive version is now available.* The video and PowerPoint slides for each presentation can be viewed in the same format as the live webcast. Links are provided to each individual presentation. Additional forum-...

Welcome to the Cultural Workforce Forum

November 20, 2009
November 20, 2009 Washington, DC Today we are presenting the webcast of the Cultural Workforce Forum, a forum about America's artists, other cultural workers, and how art works as a part of this country's real economy. Academics, foundation professionals, and service organization...

Arts in Action

November 19, 2009
November 19, 2009 Washington, DC Earlier today, the NEA announced the Indiana Arts Commission as the recipient of the 2009 National Accessibility Leadership Award for their outstanding accessibility work in creating access to careers in the arts for people with disabilities. With their $30,000 NEA...

Artists in the Workforce Webcast

November 18, 2009
November 18, 2009 Washington, DC Starting at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, November 20th, the Arts Endowment will present a live webcast of the Cultural Workforce Forum, a forum about America's artists, other cultural workers, and how art works as a part of this country's real economy. Academics,...

Art Works in Peoria

November 12, 2009
November 13, 2009 Washington, DC Adam Sitton and Zach Hoesly, cast members from Eastlight Theatre?s production of Rent , worked with a number of fellow cast and crew members, as well as other artistic citizens, to create a video that highlights some of the ways that art works in Peoria, Illinois. [...

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