National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent federal agency that provides the opportunity for Americans to get involved and participate in the arts in their communities. The NEA’s office of Research and Analysis provides funding to support projects nationwide that investigate the value and impact of the arts. The NEA provided a fifteen thousand dollar grant to fund a three-year research project at Boise State University called “Universities: Cultural Anchors in the Intermountain West.”…

Many people argue that both visual arts and performing arts should be removed from schools. Some believe that schools are in debt, and could really use the money that goes toward the arts. Some people argue that material learned in arts cannot be used in other courses. Arts education courses might be eliminated from schools just because they aren't very strong. However, studies have shown that programs such as band, orchestra, chorus, art, and theatre can assist students not only in school, but…

a brief summary of the state of the U.S.A's young readers, this is essential for setting up his persuasive point because it insures the reader and writer are on the same page. The first use of Ethos occurs shortly after, Dana cites the National Endowment of the Arts as a creditable source to base his opinion on. He follows this by using Pathos in the fourth paragraph when Dana provides the creditable sources of Wired Magazine and author…

Thriving Educational Dollars: The Arts and Humanities is Powerful In Max Rebarb’s book, “Wasted Educational Dollars” New Perspectives on Education and Economic Benefit Rebarb argues, “the arts and humanities is useless.” He also states that faculties in post-secondary buildings should be removed because of them being “useless.” Rebarb’s opinion is flawed though, and one that’s inconsistent. The arts and humanities offer creativity in children for the future, historical events to review from…

Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society was considered one of the most sweeping proposals since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Although both of these proposals were intended to make living standards and such better in the United States, they were based on different things. First off, the Great Society was a response to prosperity, while the New Deal was a response to depression. Johnson’s Great Society proposed ways of reducing poverty and bettering America for its future, while FDR’s New Deal was an…

The 2012 article, “My Gloriously Useless Degrees In the Humanities”, focuses on the unstable nature of the job market, and its contribution towards the negative outlook on arts/humanities degrees.This article comes one year after the occupy wall street movements, people during this time were angry, and questioned the distribution of wealth in America. The author, Katrin Park, does not seek to answer the questions brought upon by the Occupy movement, but rather she recognizes that her argument…

time, she made more than 75 records, including 23 that went gold, and won several Grammys and Latin Grammys. She also appeared in several movies, earned a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, and was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts by the National Endowment of the Arts.” (Celia Cruz Biography, 7). On July 16, 2003 Celia died at age 77, in New Jersey. She may not be here, but her legacy still lives on. On October 13, 2015, Celia, a drama series inspired by her life, debuted on…

The Way Art Moves the Soul Many concerned parents and educators argue that art class it is a waste of the student’s time and that students should be focusing on their academic education. Today, education is defined as attending school to acquire knowledge in the courses of mathematics, science, literature, social studies. Consequently, the art budget is being cut in many public schools. Jesse LaTourette explains that “The main reason for this is because of how costly it can be to the school,”…

Lalo Guerrero was born on Christmas Eve in 1916 in Tucson, Arizona from a humble home.Guerrero’s mother was Concepcion Guerrero who was a traditional singer and as well a guitarist. Guerrero’s mother then taught his son how to play the guitar and taught him Mexican songs. He later learned to play the families piano and was strongly encouraged to write songs from his relatives in Mexico. As a child he went to participate in a competition that took place in his town. All schools in his town were…

If art were not an option during my formative years, I would not be the person I am today, socially or academically. Growing up in a military family, I attended a different school about every three years. This is no easy task for a developing adolescent. The changing school curriculum left me feeling inadequate and unprepared for the next. Math being my most troubling subject. Simple addition and subtraction were easy enough to grasp, but computations involving multiplication, division and…