Dana Gioia - National Endowment for the Arts

Dana Gioia - National Endowment for the Arts

Dana Gioia is Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts. According to whitehouse.gov: Dana Gioia, an internationally acclaimed poet, critic, educator and former business executive, was appointed by the President and confirmed... [more]

Dana Gioia is Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts. According to whitehouse.gov: Dana Gioia, an internationally acclaimed poet, critic, educator and former business executive, was appointed by the President and confirmed unanimously by the Senate in January 2003. Mr. Gioia has worked most recently as a poet and critic and is best known for his 1991 book Can Poetry Matter? about the role of poetry in contemporary culture. Musically trained, he served the past six years as classical music critic for San Francisco magazine and has been a long time commentator on American culture and literature for BBC Radio. Working to support his writing, Mr. Gioia was an executive for General Foods in New York for fifteen years, eventually becoming their Vice President of Marketing. He received a B.A. and a M.B.A. from Stanford University and a M.A. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University.

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As NEA Chairman, Dana Gioia won solid bipartisan Congressional support of programs that bring Shakespeare, poetry, music and great literature into every community of the country. In addition to Shakespeare in American Communities, Mr. Gioia developed ...  
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Cultural Diplomacy: Scene Two, Take OneLayalina Productions... which appropriates 167.5 million dollars to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), ...  
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Washington PostNational Endowment for the Arts presents the 2009 Opera HonorsWashington PostTalented troupe: The 2009 NEA Opera Honorees, from left, Lofti Mansouri, Julius Rudel, Frank Corsaro and Marilyn Horne. NEA President Rocco Landesman is to ...  
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At the end of October, President Obama signed a bill into law which will increase the budgets of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities by $12.5 million each. Host Liane Hansen speaks with NEH Chairman Jim Leach about the increased funding and how he views the role of the humanities in today's political life.  
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NEA chairman Rocco Landesman told The New York Times way back in August that he wasn’t sure if there was theater in Peoria.   But on Friday, the head of the National Endowment for the Arts was learning that there is not only theater, but also dance, visual art, a chamber orchestra and a symphony orchestra that goes back 110 years.  
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