[New-Poetry] NEW ARTS ORGANIZATION TO AWARD

[Halvard Johnson]

Speaking of arts organizations, has anyone noticed that the
Poetry Foundation is currently listed as one of the sponsors
of The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS? I've been getting
my news elsewhere for some time now, but happened to peek
in at The News Hour just a couple evenings ago.

That gives us some idea of where some of that enormous grant
money is going.

Hal

"If you can't stand Byzantine intrigue,
  get out of the cabal."
		--New Yorker cartoon

Halvard Johnson
================
halvard at gmail.com
halvard at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard
http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
http://www.hamiltonstone.org

On Jan 1, 2007, at 12:29 PM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:

> http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public/Home/index.cfm
> NEW ARTS ORGANIZATION TO AWARD
> $50,000 INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIPS
>
>
> A new charitable arts organization called United States Artists  
> (USA) announced last month that it will award annual grants of  
> fifty thousand dollars each to fifty artists from around the  
> country, including poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction  
> writers. The USA Fellowships, which will also be offered in the  
> categories of architecture and design, dance, music, theater, and  
> visual arts, are given to encourage recipients “to test new ideas  
> and applications in their work” or to pursue their art full-time.  
> The first winners—chosen from a group of more than three hundred  
> artists at all stages of their careers, nominated by a group of a  
> hundred and fifty arts leaders—will be announced at a ceremony in  
> New York City on December 4.
>
> The formation of USA, whose mission is “to nurture, support, and  
> strengthen the work of America’s finest living artists,” was  
> inspired by a 2003 Urban Institute study titled “Investing in  
> Creativity: A Study of the Support Structures for U.S. Artists.”  
> The founding donors, who contributed an initial $20 million in  
> funding, include the Ford, Prudential, Rasmuson, and Rockefeller  
> charitable foundations. Additional financial commitments from other  
> individuals and organizations, such as Agnes Gund, Eli and Edythe  
> Broad, the Todd Simon Foundation, and the Target chain of stores,  
> will ensure that the fellowships will be awarded in future years.
>
> For more information about USA, visit the Web site.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> New-Poetry mailing list
> New-Poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/new-poetry

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/pipermail/new-poetry/attachments/20070101/048614ed/attachment.html