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ARTS IN EDUCATION WEEK: SEPTEMBER 12 - 18
In July, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution authored by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) designating the second week of September as Arts in Education Week each year. Speier was joined by 101 of her colleagues, including Congresswoman Shelley Berkley from Las Vegas, in sponsoring this positive expression by Congress highlighting the important role that arts education plays as an “essential element of a complete and balanced education for all students,” said Speier. “Studies have shown that an arts education improves math and verbal SAT scores, and with students in China and other nations pulling ahead, we cannot leave our students at a competitive disadvantage.” Mark September 12–18 as Arts in Education Week for your organization. Wondering how to celebrate? Check out ideas at:
http://artsusa.org/networks/arts_education/default.asp
IN MEMORIAM:
FOLK ARTS MASTER ELIZABETH BRADY
Elizabeth Jackson Brady passed away on August 24th in Elko, Nevada at the age of 87. She was one of the oldest members of her tribal community in Elko. (read more)
PALLADINO's WORK ON DISPLAY IN CARSON CITY
"Distilled" a series of conceptual sculptures by Dominique Palladino, is on display through September 22 at the Nevada Arts Council's Carson City Office, as part of the Office eXhibition Series (OXS). In "Distilled" Palladino uses salt as a means to explore and depict growing ideas of division, loss and abandonment in relationship to hierarchical gender roles. By using the salt in different states - desne, evaporated and distilled - Palladino creats a lineage of existence where a continuous slow estraction ultimately results in the absence thereof, a distillation.
TIM JONES NAC BOARD CHAIR, RECEIVES NATIONAL ADVOCACY AWARD
Tim Jones, chair of the Nevada Arts Council, received the 2010 Annual Arts Advocacy Award from the National Association of Counties’ (NACo) Arts and Culture Commission at its Arts Award Dinner on July 18, 2010, held during NACo’s annual conference in Reno. More than 100 arts and community leaders from Reno and county officials from around the nation attended the event, which was hosted by the Nevada Arts Council, Sierra Arts and cathexes architects.
Jay Dick, Director of State and Local Government Affairs for Americans for the Arts, commented on Jones’ award, “I have known Tim for several years and could think of no one more deserving to receive this award from NACo. Tim has worked tirelessly and modestly to advance the arts during his years as a board member and chair for the Nevada Arts Council It was very fitting for him to be recognized in front of county officials from around the nation to highlight his work and the arts in Nevada.”
Since his appointment to the Arts Council board by Governor Guinn in 2001, Jones has made advocacy a priority. During a 2010 town hall meeting in Reno, hosted by the Nevada Legislature in preparation for its special session, Jones implored for a halt to additional cuts to the state arts agency, noting that “… reducing the budget of the Nevada Arts Council any more - now a mere 3 cents for every hundred dollars spent - won’t help fill the holes we all are desperate to fill, but it will destroy the work of thousands since the agency’s inception in 1967, and deny Nevada a chance to use creativity as a road to recovery.”
FY11 ARTIST FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED
The Nevada Arts Council has awarded six Artist Fellowships for FY11. Congratulations go to:
• Literary Arts - Matthew O’Brien, Las Vegas and James David Udall, Reno
• Performing Arts - Queala Clancy, Las Vegas and Eugene Shapiro, Henderson
• Visual Arts - Darren Thomas Johnson, Las Vegas and Nickolaus Larsen, Sparks
In addition to using the $5,000 grant to produce art during the fellowship year, each fellow provides a free public event relevant to his or her discipline, through readings, exhibitions, performances, and master classes. The Artist Services Program, which oversees Artist Fellowships, also recognized nine artists with honorable mention grants at $500 each - Linda Alterwitz, Las Vegas; Rebecca Bosshart, Las Vegas; Dean Burton, Reno; Bryan Christiansen, Reno; Catherine Cotter, Reno; Jorge Grossmann, Henderson; Scott A. Lukas, Minden; Athena Mertes, Las Vegas and Susan Priest, Gardnerville. Read more.
NAC AWARDS $560,837 IN FY11 GRANTS
The Nevada Arts Council (NAC) announces 149 grant awards for a total of $560,837 for FY11 annual grants through the Arts Education and Grants Program. In May, NAC Grants Panels convened in public meetings to evaluate FY11 applications and recommend funding for the NAC Board to consider during its Spring Board Meeting held via conference call on June 7, 2010. Because of deep budget reductions sustained during the FY09 Legislative Session, panel-recommended funding exceeded the allotted amounts, requiring an average cut of 44.8% per category.
With congratulations to the FY11 grantees, we also offer a reminder that all State of Nevada agencies will be required to implement additional budget cuts for the next biennium. For more information about arts advocacy, we encourage you to visit Arts4Nevada.org.
FY11 Grants Program Awards and FY11 Arts Education Awards
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