Sentences with phrase «federal arts funding»

News: Atlanta arts groups band together for postcard campaign in support of federal arts funding

In this time of uncertainty surrounding the future of federal arts funding, the Wexner Center, alongside other distinguished arts organizations in Ohio and across our nation, stands as testament to the NEA's vital role in encouraging artistic excellence and enriching the cultural conversation in communities throughout the US and beyond.»

PLATTSBURGH — With millions of dollars in federal arts funding on the chopping block, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.) appeared at the Strand Center Gallery in downtown Plattsburgh on Friday to rail against President Trump's proposed cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

WASHINGTON — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has voted against every one of President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees, decried his bid to eliminate federal arts funding and attacked his overall agenda — and has had her best fundraising quarter ever.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has voted against every one of Trump's Cabinet nominees, decried his bid to eliminate federal arts funding and attacked his overall agenda — and has had her best fundraising quarter ever: $ 4.4 million.

Not exact matches

OTTAWA (CP)-- Arts and culture organizations will now be required to commit in writing to providing a workplace free of harassment and sexual misconduct in order to receive federal funding, Heritage Minister Melanie Joly declared Wednesday.

Let's leave aside the contentious question of whether federal tax dollars should be used to fund arts / entertainment.

These areas heavily rely on federal funding of the arts, considering about 79 percent of National Endowment for the Arts block - grant funds go to rural communities and low - income areas, according to The Washington Parts, considering about 79 percent of National Endowment for the Arts block - grant funds go to rural communities and low - income areas, according to The Washington PArts block - grant funds go to rural communities and low - income areas, according to The Washington Post.

Grimm was honored earlier this year by the American Alliance of Museums for supporting federal funding for arts programs like the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanitarts programs like the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the HumanitArts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Joshua Kretser, executive director of the Strand Center for the Arts and Ward 6 city councilor, noted the vital part federal and state funding played in the Strand Theater restoration.

The federal funds included in the spending bill will go towards building a state - of - the - art NCO training academy on base.

That proposal called for the elimination of 19 federal agencies and would cut funding locally for programs like Meals on Wheels, heating assistance programs and arts and culture organizations.

Fast - forward from that first lightbulb moment with the video through a couple of years refining the idea, patent approval, and the formation of Marine Desalination Systems in 1999 to the procurement of federal funding in 2001, and Max is in St. Petersburg, Florida, with a lab in a refurbished 1927 art deco building where Sealtest once made cherry - vanilla ice cream.

Horne, a classically trained pianist and founder of the Phoenix Baroque Ensemble, hasn't yet achieved his objective, but he has made progress: He pushed through higher standards for arts education, appointed an arts specialist in the state Department of Education, and steered $ 4 million in federal funds under NCLB to support arts integration in schools throughout the state.

The Department of Education's decision to link federal funding to the Core in its Race to the Top program, its NCLB waiver effort, and its «ESEA blueprint,» and the provision of $ 350 million in federal funds for Core - related tests, all alienated anti-Washington conservatives who would have remained neutral if the question had merely concerned states collaborating to set standards in math and English language arts.

The school was constructed as a junior high school for grades 7 to 9 during the 1930s with federal Work Projects Administration funds, and its design shows period Art Deco - influences.

(Other federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation and Arts and Humanities endowments have engaged for decades in the funding, development, evaluation, and encouragement of curricula.)

The Education Department, along with other federal agencies and private funders, earlier this year awarded grants for the development of standards in science, history, and the arts.

The state now knows how much federal funding it stands to lose by declining to give state standardized tests in math and English language arts next spring to all students: at least $ 15 million — and potentially tens of millions of dollars more.

First, federal policymakers should offer funds to help underwrite the cost for states to take the five action steps described above [including» adopting a common core of internationally benchmarked standards in math and language arts.»]

The federal government funded two multistate consortia, PARCC and Smarter Balanced, to the tune of $ 350 million, to create new Common Core - aligned tests for math and English language arts.

The Mississippi Arts Commission funds that support the Whole Schools Initiative are derived from private, state, and federal sources.

Interventions include those Read more about Dozens of Arts Programs Could Receive Funding Under Federal Education Law -LSB-...]

Carter laments that Washington politicians don't share this view, pointing to a federal budget that has reduced or eliminated funding for arts, civics, economics, foreign languages, geography, and history programs.

MPS will soon receive some more federal funding to help bring art into other parts of the school building.

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.

Prior to 2013, federal transit law permitted the use of FTA grant funds for costs associated with including art in public transportation projects.

The Arts Commission is supported with general funds appropriated by the Oregon legislature, federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, and funds from the Oregon Cultural Trust.

The Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, which has been funded since its fourth edition by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) as an «outstanding cultural event,» is delighted to announce Gabi Ngcobo as the curator of the upcoming 10th Berlin Biennale.

Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz - An Exhibition ran from March 18 through May 13 2007 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art and was funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes / German Federal Cultural Foundation.

The Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art is funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) and organized by KUNST - WERKE BERLIN e. V.

US Citizenship Test Samplers was supported by an Individual Artist Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, as well as a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Prior to joining Crystal Bridges, Bigelow was chief operating officer at the Toledo Museum of Art, where he implemented a federal grant program to increase funding for the museum's sustainability projects, initiated collaboration with local non-profit organizations, and coordinated planning and pre-construction activities for a new contemporary gallery space.

Support is also provided in part by funding from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a state agency, and in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

That might hinge on federal and state arts funding, but it should be part of the solution, too.

Federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and Institute of Museum and Library Services support artists» residencies and our Film / Video Studio Archive, respectively; international cultural agencies support specific projects as well.

In May, Trump called for ending federal funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and its sister agency National Endowment for Humanities, which provide coveted grants to artists across the nation.

La Salle University Art Museum receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agearts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal ageArts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal ageArts, a federal agency.

The workshop was partially funded by the Carnegie Foundation and later came under the jurisdiction of the WPA Federal Arts Project.

Robert Mapplethorpe is forever associated with scandals that erupted at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, as well as the crippling drawdown of federal funding that rendered the National Endowment for the Arts a casualty of the late - 1980s culture wars.

The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).

Additional funding provided by City of Reno Arts and Culture Commission and the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

The Americans for the Arts Action Fund will use the funds to educate the US Congress and other decision makers about the value of the arts and arts education to all Americans in every part of our nation and urge them to fully fund the NEA for fiscal year 2018, plus all the other federal cultural agencies and efforts such as the Artist Museum Partnership Act which would allow artists the same tax benefits for donations of their own art as a collector currently gets when gifting a similar work to a museum or educational institution.&raArts Action Fund will use the funds to educate the US Congress and other decision makers about the value of the arts and arts education to all Americans in every part of our nation and urge them to fully fund the NEA for fiscal year 2018, plus all the other federal cultural agencies and efforts such as the Artist Museum Partnership Act which would allow artists the same tax benefits for donations of their own art as a collector currently gets when gifting a similar work to a museum or educational institution.&raFund will use the funds to educate the US Congress and other decision makers about the value of the arts and arts education to all Americans in every part of our nation and urge them to fully fund the NEA for fiscal year 2018, plus all the other federal cultural agencies and efforts such as the Artist Museum Partnership Act which would allow artists the same tax benefits for donations of their own art as a collector currently gets when gifting a similar work to a museum or educational institution.&raarts and arts education to all Americans in every part of our nation and urge them to fully fund the NEA for fiscal year 2018, plus all the other federal cultural agencies and efforts such as the Artist Museum Partnership Act which would allow artists the same tax benefits for donations of their own art as a collector currently gets when gifting a similar work to a museum or educational institution.&raarts education to all Americans in every part of our nation and urge them to fully fund the NEA for fiscal year 2018, plus all the other federal cultural agencies and efforts such as the Artist Museum Partnership Act which would allow artists the same tax benefits for donations of their own art as a collector currently gets when gifting a similar work to a museum or educational institution.&rafund the NEA for fiscal year 2018, plus all the other federal cultural agencies and efforts such as the Artist Museum Partnership Act which would allow artists the same tax benefits for donations of their own art as a collector currently gets when gifting a similar work to a museum or educational institution.»

Support for this exhibition and its programming has been provided by the Smart Museum's Pamela and R. Christopher Hoehn - Saric Exhibition Fund, Nuveen Investments, the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, the University of Chicago's Arts Council, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture.

He joined the Artists Union and helped to found the Harlem Artists Guild in 1935, which lobbied for and won federal funding for an arts center in Harlem (the Harlem Community Art Center, established in 1937).

And here's the thing, unlike most no - profit art organizations, including museums, public art studios and such things, the Joan Mitchell Foundation doesn't compete for state, federal or private funds.

The Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art is organized by KW Institute for Contemporary Art and funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).

Major contributors to the NPN Community Fund are the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).

Harold Eugene Edgerton, Wes Fesler Kicking a Football, 1934, gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, a federal agency, and the Polaroid Corporation) 2015.19.4183

The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).