The Illinois Arts Council (IAC) recently announced the Individual Artist Support (IAS) Initiative to help Illinois artists realize career goals, take advantage of professional opportunities, and/or produce a project or body of work for public viewing. Steep reductions in IAC’s operating budget resulted in several programs being suspended and others greatly reduced for fiscal year…
The Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) has published tips for panelists on how to review various elements of an application for state arts agency grant funding. Tips are provided for reading and interpreting budgets, three-year financial comparisons and application narratives. To ensure equitable review of diverse organizations included in the same applicant pool, information…
To publicly acknowledge and increase the visibility of its Individual Artist Fellows, the Delaware Division of the Arts provides detailed information about each fellow on its Web site. The state arts agency has developed electronic profiles of each artist, including biographic information, artistic statements, links to the artist’s Web site and samples of each artist’s…
The Mississippi Arts Commission is sponsoring Museum on Wheels, a traveling exhibit and lesson in visual art. Funded by the Wallace Foundation, the goal of the project is to bring communities together through the inspirational power of visual art and to serve as an educational tool for local residents and students. By providing instruction in…
The Art Works! section of the California Arts Council (CAC) Web site documents the work of current and past grantees and programs of the CAC. Some of the subjects that have been highlighted to date include Poetry Out Loud, teaching artists, music education, community empowerment, women in the arts and accessibility. Each of the stories…
This summer, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) presented Art Unplugged, a performance series that showcased the talent of local performing artists. From mid-June to mid-August, the series presented 38 free shows hosted at nontraditional spaces throughout the city’s four quadrants. The intent of the series was to “unplug” artists from traditional…
The Kansas Arts Commission coordinates the selection of its state’s poet laureate. Once selected, the poet laureate is expected to create and implement a statewide educational or outreach poetry program; serve as an advisor and judge at the annual Poetry Out Loud competition; and make appearances, read at and potentially write poetry for official state…
Indiana Artisan is a joint venture by the Indiana Arts Commission, the Indiana Office of Tourism Development, the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs and the Indiana State Department of Agriculture. The collaboration is designed to support artisans and handmade products and attract visitors to individual artisan sites and arts-concentrated areas in the state.…
The Nebraska Arts Council (NAC), in partnership with The Backwaters Press publishing company, honors Nebraska writers awarded an individual artist fellowship with a new writers reading series. Wednesday Words is a monthly lunch hour series at the NAC’s offices in Omaha’s Old Market District. The series is free and open to the public and features…
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