National Endowment for the Arts

of becoming a bigger institution, maybe the Delaware Art Museum should have focused on expanding it community programs or refining them. Bigger institutions are not always better, it is the quality of institutions that matter. Focusing on refining their existing programs or creating new programs would have cost less than $19.8 million and would have brought them closer to their community. As for the Randolph College and its Maier Museum of Art, the Maier should form a plan that help it move away…

taking the stance of his work as being technically beautiful as well as arguing that he uses photography to push our popular perceptions of sexuality and fine art. The first conflict that Robert Mapplethorpe faced was the age of photography itself. Photography has not been around for very long. In fact, it was not fully considered or recognized an art form throughout the 19th century do to it being the most mechanical (not to mention newest) of mediums. Liz Wells acknowledges this argument,…

Tim O’Brien Biography Tim O'Brien was born on October 1, 1946 in Austin, which is a small town in Minnesota and grew up in Worthington (About Tim O’Brien, Illyria.com). He was very into reading when he was a child and loved to do magic tricks. His parents were reading eccentrics, as his father was on the local library board and his mother was a second grade teacher. He was a very all-American kid and spent his childhood on little league baseball teams, and later, on jobs. O’Brien was then…

fund the arts programs in K-12, I’m not going to. That would be a lie. It is a simple, two-sided argument as to if we should or should not. While the argument of why we shouldn’t fund the arts have many valid, financial points, it will pay off in the long run to pay for such funding. Those who oppose this argument will say things such as the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) shouldn’t be supported for many reasons. Among these reasons, provided by The Heritage Foundation, include the arts…

United States today, standards for arts education are lacking in many states and are impacting the quality of education for students across the nation. The arts are now seen as an elective rather than a core subject and are being neglected in comparison to other subjects. The number of students being exposed to the arts in school is dropping, especially in areas with high percentages of minorities (Robelen). With proof from studies showing the benefits of an arts education, policies need to be…

currently resides in Newtown, PA. While growing up in rural Virginia, he showed interest in art, which later led him to photography. In 1965, he received a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) in Graphic Design from Richmond Professional Institute, which is now known as Virginia Commonwealth University today. Shortly after receiving his BFA, he went to Rhode Island School of Design to receive a MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) in Photography in 1967(Pace/MacGill). Early on in Gowins career he entered…

Lazzari grew up in Saint Luis and has taught painting lessons at The University of Southern California since the age of 33. She has won an artist award for Lifetime Achievement, was subject for an exhibition in Riverside California and received a National Endowment for Artist fellowship. She's not only a painter, but a professor and author as well. In 2011, when she released her painting "Full Bloom", she was set to accomplish abstract nature in it's best forms and that's precisely what she did.…

Burn it. Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping…” (59, Bradbury). Specifically, Bradbury uses censorship in his novel to convey a feeling of love for books, in an interview for the National Endowment for the Arts, he explains how his family didn’t have enough money for him to college so he turned to…

(“Suzan-Lori Parks: Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright”). As of 2017; Parks is working on her second novel, writing a scripted, Amazon original series, live-streaming a free, weekly writer’s workshop and teaching playwrighting at the Tisch School of Arts at New York University…

2009) The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), considered…