advocacy
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I’m driving to Los Angeles today to meet up with my colleagues on the Emerging Leader Council of Americans for the Arts for our annual Winter Meeting and planning session. We’ll spend two days working out how we want to spend our year together, what we can do for Emerging Leader networks nationally, and what
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Here’s roughly half of the literary organizations receiving support from the NEA in 2010. Consider the number of presses, publications, and author support organizations here, and then consider how your involvement in advocacy will make a difference this year. A Public Space Literary Projects, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$10,000To support the publication of the quarterly literary magazine A
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Dear Writers of America, Why aren’t you more actively engaged in supporting federal, state, and local funding for the arts? Many of us, myself included, have found personal benefit in this funding. Several years ago, I was one of 11 artists to receive a $5,000 grant for poetry from the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
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Again and again I feel disappointed in and embittered by the national and local dialogues about art these days. CONTEXTFirst, the bright side (whic is still pretty dim): when the NEA cut all of its fellowships to individual artists after the “culture wars” of the 1990s, the only two disciplines who continued to receive this
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