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April 3, 2019
Michigan: Creating Connection MI Radio Series
The Girls Rock Detroit program is among the life-changing programs featured in the Creating Connection MI broadcast. Photo courtesy of Long Haul Productions The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA) recently launched a five-part series on Michigan Public Radio featuring stories about how creative expression brings people and communities closer…
April 3, 2019
North Carolina: Folklife Internships
Some participants in the Historically Black Colleges/Universities & Minority Institutions of Higher Education Summer Internship program will receive immersive training in folklife programming through the North Carolina Arts Council. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources This summer, the North Carolina Arts Council (N.C. Arts Council) is…
April 3, 2019
South Dakota: Governor's Award for Supporting the Arts in Tribal Communities
2019 awardees of the South Dakota Governor’s Awards in the Arts. Photo courtesy of Jennifer Baker This year, there is a new category of the biennial South Dakota Governor’s Awards in the Arts—presented by the South Dakota Arts Council and Arts South Dakota—that honors efforts to support tribal communities. The Outstanding…
March 6, 2019
California: Gathering of Poets Laureate
California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia recites the final poems of the gathering. Photo by Farah Sosa courtesy of the California Arts Council This fall, California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia—who served as the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 to 2008—completed his term of literary public service to…
March 6, 2019
Iowa: Creative Aging in Rural Libraries
Judy Franzmeier shows off a landscape she painted at the Palmer Public Library. Photo courtesy of Ramona Miller/Palmer Public Library In Iowa, where three-quarters of the state’s 544 public libraries serve communities with fewer than 2,500 residents, there is a new initiative to support creative aging in rural areas. Iowa Arts…
March 6, 2019
New Jersey: Diversity in Arts Leadership Internship
Participating cohort of DIAL interns pose for a photo opportunity during their summer internship in New York City. Photo courtesy of Americans for the Arts The New Jersey State Council on the Arts (NJSCA) is the first-ever state partner in the Diversity in Arts Leadership (DIAL) internship program. Created by Americans…
February 6, 2019
Alaska: ARTShops
Ancient Alutiiq Cell Phones, Old Harbor, Kodiak, Alaska. Photo courtesy of Lena Snow Amason-Berns ARTShops is a collaborative effort of the Alaska State Council on the Arts (ASCA) and The CIRI Foundation—with support from the Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation—to catalyze Alaska Native artists’ creative leadership and related community development throughout…
February 6, 2019
Tennessee: Music & Memory Tennessee
With a $1 million Civil Monetary Penalty grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Tennessee Department of Health, the Tennessee Arts Commission (TAC) is implementing Music & Memory Tennessee, a model therapeutic-music program that will serve at least 2,200 patients in 147 nursing homes over the next three years. Music &…
February 6, 2019
Kansas: Indigenous Arts Initiative
The Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission (KCAIC) and the University of Kansas’s Spencer Museum of Art, Lied Center of Kansas, and Department of Film and Media Studies have launched their Indigenous Arts Initiative. The effort will support collaborative, mentorship based programming at the University of Kansas that is designed to foster the creative and professional…
January 7, 2019
Florida: Arts & Wellbeing Indicators and Toolkits
One of the ways the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs (DCA) has realized the vision of its 2015-2020 strategic plan to foster vibrant, thriving and healthy communities is to partner with the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine in support of its Florida Arts & Wellbeing Indicators initiative. DCA funded the three-year effort to develop…
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