NEA Spring Grants Announced: Texas Visual Arts Orgs Share $382,000
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced it’s Art Works Grants, and 31 Texas nonprofits have benefited, to the tune of $788,500, total. Among [...]
NEA Awards $60,000 To Artpace For Artist-In-Residence Program
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced yesterday that Artpace San Antonio is recommended for a $60,000 NEA Art Works grant to support [...]
Arts People is Good People, Says New NEA-Funded Study- Or At Least They Were in 2002
A new study, Impact of the Arts on Individual Contributions to U.S Civil Society, by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests a [...]
Model City for the New Face of America Gets $50,000 for Transit Stop Engagement Process
The NEA has selected UTSA’s College of Architecture for a $50,000 grant to develop a transit stop near the redeveloped Tobin Center for the Performing [...]
Houston’s Nameless Sound Awarded National Grants from NEA and NALAC
Houston creative music org Nameless Sound was named as one of 788 not-for-profits to receive an NEA Art Works grant. Nameless Sound will get $12,500 [...]
Surprise! Obama’s 2013 Budget Doesn’t Axe the Arts; Gator Pool Frothing in Anticipation
The president’s 2013 “re-election budget” has got my vote: Allen Keckonen of the San Antonio Art Festivals Examiner has waded through the numbers and concludes [...]
The Professional Artist
When I ask Mark Goodman, Graduate Academic Advisor in the Department of Art at the University of Austin, what he wishes he could tell his [...]
Texas’ Slice of the NEA Pie , 2012
Along with symphonies, dance companies, and theater groups, visual arts projects in Texas got a share of the 863 National Endowment for the Arts Grants [...]
NEA Art Magazine Features Online Slideshow on Judd’s Marfa
Speaking of online magazines, NEA Art, the National Endowment for the Arts’ quarterly magazine is running a feature on Donald Judd’s Marfa, highlighting Judd Foundation, [...]
Glasstire founder waves the online arts journalism banner in new NEA blog
Glasstire founder Rainey Knudson’s has been invited to blog on the NEA’s website; in her first post she explains the alarming decline among print journalists [...]
Covert Ops: blogger’s conspiracy theory has NEA funding individuals through artistic excellence awards
Real Clear Arts applauds what it sees as the NEA’s back-door efforts to get public money into the hands of individual artists through residency programs, [...]
El Paso, Houston, Marfa and San Angelo get NEA Our Town grants
Last week the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town program announced $6.575 million in grants to 51 communities. Among them are four projects in [...]
Arts writers in hard times: notes from the chopping block
Elizabeth Kramer, an arts journalist who writes for the Gannett-owned Louisville Courier-Journal, escaped massive layoffs on Tuesday, when the paper shed ten percent of its [...]
