The North Dakota Council on the Arts (NDCA) in partnership with North Dakota Parks and Recreation Department is expanding the Artist in Residency Program within North Dakota state parks. The program is a collaborative effort to incorporate the arts into the interpretive and educational activities presented by the Parks and Recreation Department. The program will…
To increase commercial opportunities for Kentucky artists, the Kentucky Arts Council (KAC) has launched the Architectural Artist Directory. The adjudicated roster features Kentucky artists who create custom architectural installations, fixtures, cabinetry, railings, gates and other custom furnishings. The target audience for this directory is home builders, remodelers, decorators, architects and interior designers. By promoting Kentucky…
The Nevada Arts Council’s NTI-Traveling Exhibition Program is one of the components of the Nevada Touring Initiative (NTI). The program delivers high quality visual arts exhibits to community-based organizations throughout Nevada. All of the traveling exhibits are delivered and installed by a professional installer for an affordable fee. The rental fee includes loan of the…
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…
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