Read more here: www.variety.com BLESS ME, ULTIMA has been challenged/banned historically and is also a novel on former First Lady Laura Bush's Top 10 Reading List for All Ages.Read Full Story
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 9 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Girls Write Now, a New York City organization that matches at-risk high school girls with professional women writers for mentoring and writing training, has been nationally recognized as one of 15 youth arts and humanities programs to receive the prestigious 2009 Coming Up Taller Award. Youth and adult representatives of the program traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend a White House ceremony on November 4, where they accepted the award from...Read Full Story
This afternoon, the U.S. Senate confirmed Broadway producer Rocco Landesman to serve as the next National Endowment for the Arts chair and former Congressman Jim Leach to serve as National Endowment for the Humanities chair. Both are expected to begin work next week. Americans for the Arts President and CEO Robert L. Lynch issued the following statement:
"Today’s Senate confirmation of Rocco Landesman and Congressman Jim Leach marks a moment of great opportunity for our nation’s cultural...Read Full Story
Boundless Readers™/National-Louis University Target Latinos for Second Consecutive Year in The Big Read 2010, Chicago Style
Bless Me, Ultima is the focus book for The Big Read 2010, Chicago Style
Chicago (PRWEB) October 13, 2010
Boundless Readers™ and National-Louis University announced today that they will partner to bring The National Endowment for the Arts’ (NEA) “The Big Read” to Chicago for the second consecutive year...Read Full Story
"The Big Read" - an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts - was designed to revitalize the role of literary reading in American Popular Culture. In a NEA report in 2004, it was revealed that there has been a critical decline in reading for pleasure in American Adults in recent years. The Big Read addresses that problem by providing citizens with the opportunity to read and discuss a single book within their communities. When I encountered the Director for the program at the West...Read Full Story
National Endowment for the Arts Announces $135,000 in NEA Jazz Masters Live Grants
Grants support unique opportunities to engage with NEA Jazz Masters through performance and education opportunities
Announcement made during 30th anniversary celebration of NEA Jazz Masters program
New York, NY: At last night's celebration of the 30th anniversary of the NEA Jazz Masters program, Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts...
"The National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities each will see a 5.6% budget reduction in fiscal 2012 under a spending bill passed Friday in the House that's expected to prevent a feared government shutdown."...
Mitch Wieland, who teaches fiction and nonfiction in Southern New Hampshire University's MFA program, was named a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. He is among only 40 writers nationwide to receive the $25,000 fellowship, and was ...
The National Endowment for the Arts released on Tuesday the schedule for the Thursday visit to Chicago and Evanston of NEA chairman Rocco Landesman. Landesman, the federal agency said, will participate Thursday morning in a roundtable discussion ...
As a result of the spending bill that passed Friday, allegedly to avoid a government shutdown, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities are seeing a steep cut in their fiscal budgets for 2012. The two organizations will receive a 12.7% combined cut for the year after another spending cut was approved earlier this year.Each organization will now work with a $146.3 million budget, down from $155 million...
The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded program that offers support and funding for projects that exhibit artistic excellence. It was created by the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its chairman is poet Dana Gioia and has its offices in the Old Post Office in Washington, D.C.