National Endowment for the Arts

APPROVAL OF JIM PATRINOS TO WARHOL BOARD- SHIRY • Dmitri Shiry welcomes the board to the last board meeting of 2016. • The Andy Warhol Museum board has been aggressively moving forward with respect to identifying new candidates for the Warhol board. • The Nominating Committee has identified a handful of individuals that are entering into the beginning processes, though some are further along than others. • The Nominating Committee would like to present the candidate Jim Patrinos to the…

scholarship at Queen's College and went onto The University of Melbourne. The Law undergraduate continued his sporting career, captaining the college in cricket and representing in football and tennis. He won a college medal for oratory, which is the art of formal speaking in public in 1930 and was elected president of the sports and social club the following year. Harold was also president of the University Law Students' Society and a member of the university's debating team. Once Harold was…

dance and visual arts… is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future. (Rudy Giuliani), all great quotes. The involvement of the arts have a benefit for student because of their attendance, and behavior and what skill students learn in school. The arts such as music and theater are a huge part of making a student more successful. The arts create success for students in a variety of ways. In fact there are schools that don’t realize why the arts are a huge…

The relevance or importance of environmental issues that are affecting populations locally and worldwide is growing and creating problems. Climate change, population growth, pollution, fossil fuels, alternative energy sources and many others are having an impact in our lives. Governments are implementing laws and policies aiming to reduce adverse impact to the environments. Scientists are busy studying and collecting data, new students enroll every year to study the environmental sciences. This…

Issues in the Arts and Entertainment Industry, assessed the situation with arts funding in broad terms. He claimed: "Traditionally, public funds have been a key issue, not just in broadening the public scope and range of access and participation (including the training of artists), but also a sector of sustainability, under the broad rubric of public good." Today, acquisition of public funding became one of the most problematic aspects of arts management. Governmental support for the arts is…

Imagine, if only one size of clothes were sold in stores and government regulations don't allow any other size to sell to consumers. This may sound crazy, but it is just like what happened to the children's education. For traditional public education, the public school system offers a one-size-fits-all method of education of children in the decades. Enter the 21st century, more and more children begin to lag behind the fast changing environment was introduced on personal computers and later the…

Endless War”, is a rendition of the budget cuts that have been made within this year’s school budget. This article is interesting because the budget cut has eliminated an avid amount of funding for certain programs. Programs such as the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), that provide scholarships and grants to different agencies, are one of the programs to be affected by the cut. With regards to the future of the following eras, there are multiple affecting components that are vital to the…

An artist is struggling to make a living; she has two children who cannot predict when their next meal is. The artist heard that the WPA (the Works Progress Administration) was funding for the arts as part of a relief program. She was ecstatic to hear she could finally obtain a job to provide for her family. This artist was put in the position of poverty because after WWI, the economy was booming and the American society went through a prosperous period known as the Roaring 20s. In 1929, there…

Art education has shaped the academic minds of students all over the United States and continues to develop students ' academic achievements and discoveries. Unfortunately, with the creation of the No Child Left Behind Act and the pressure on schools to deliver high test scores in core subject areas, support of art education has diminished. However, art education is essential to a student’s education as it has many benefits and can help students master other subjects more quickly and…

there’s no carolers or Boston Pops. That’s what a world would be like without visual or performing arts and our future world is very vulnerable to this catastrophic possibility because schools continue to cut the arts programs from their schools and their curriculums. To avoid this cultural loss as well as to preserve a curriculum that produces well-rounded and fully educated students, visual and performing arts must continue to be supported and provided in schools. One of the major questions…