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...
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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.
The National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities are expected to receive their highest levels of funding in 16 years from a bill President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law by this weekend. Under the Interior Appropriations Bill passed Thursday by the House and Senate, both cultural agencies were slated to receive $167.5 million for the 2010 fiscal year. Last year's budget allocated $155 million. The increase — amid a record federal budget deficit — comes... Read Full Story
Getting up a tad bit earlier than usual on this beautiful after Thanksgiving Saturday morning, reading my news articles, I ran across a rather disturbing article. Americans are reading less. Here is the link to CBS News where I read the study and below are some excerpts: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/19/national/main3520163.shtml (CBS/AP) The latest National Endowment for the Arts report draws on a variety of sources, public and private, and essentially reaches one conclusion... Read Full Story
Broadway producer Rocco Landesman has been nominated as the next chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. The White House announced Landesman's nomination Tuesday. His appointment must be approved by Congress. President Barack Obama's decision to choose the 61-year-old Landesman could shake things up at the NEA, which provides funds to arts groups throughout the nation. The 61-year-old Landesman is a theatrical producer who brought hits like "Big River," "Angels in America" and "The... Read Full Story
Below is a great speech by the poet Dana Gioia to the Stanford graduating class of 2007….
Stanford Commencement address by Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (June 17, 2007)
Good morning.
It is a great honor to be asked to give the Commencement address at my alma mater. Although I have two degrees from Stanford, I still feel a bit like an interloper on this exquisitely beautiful campus. A person never really escapes his or her childhood.
At heart I’m still... Read Full Story
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia has announced he’s leaving his post in January so that he can return to writing poetry. (The Chair is prohibited from getting published while in office.) While I wish him well, I have to say I’m sorry to see Gioia go; he’s done a terrific job, bringing Shakespeare to communities across the country that in previous years have gotten nothing for their arts dollars, getting private funding for projects that enrolled Iraq War veterans in... Read Full Story
Dear Alliance members and friends, It is a tremendous honor to share this news with you: Last week the National Endowment for the Arts created a new funding category for artists' communities -- those organizations whose primary purpose is providing artists' residencies! As the national association for artists' communities, I was thrilled to be able to announce this at the Alliance's annual conference last week. This change is in part a result of the Alliance's advocacy work to the NEA, and... Read Full Story
According to a report released today by the National Endowment for the Arts, reading in the U.S. is in steep decline. Here’s the story from AP:
A growing crisis in American literacy
Fewers adults than ever report reading even one book a year, says disturbing new NEA report.
By Hillel Italie, Associated Press
November 19, 2007
NEW YORK — The latest National Endowment for the Arts report draws on a variety of sources, public and private, and essentially reaches one conclusion... Read Full Story
CinemathequeArt has recently had its art removed from the Internet. The issue is over Cinemathque's use of nudity in a narration where art is used to symbolize both an individual's sense of self and the cultures individuals live in. The juxtaposition of individuals and cultures is called society. Even the Catholic Church has used nudity as art as far back as there has even been a church. To symbolize the individual's relationship to God where the individual is not clothed and stands before... Read Full Story
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia is leaving in January 2009.
10-13-2008: National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia announced that he will leave his position as the head of the Arts Endowment in January 2009. After his departure from the NEA, Gioia will return to his writing career, his primary occupation prior [...] Read Full Story
I have no doubt that a number of my friends have thought it odd that I would write even one blog about a television show, much less a number of blogs, and on top of it, spend time working to keep the television show on the air. No two ways around it, I do think Jericho is one of the best programs on TV in a long time. But, it's more than that. While working as an Executive Director of a nonprofit organization in 2001, I was asked by a prospective major donor to put together a proposal as to... Read Full Story
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