[New-Poetry] NEW ARTS ORGANIZATION TO AWARD

[TheOldMole]

Yeah, if they're artists you don't like, certainly the money would be better spent on a new weapons system.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob Grumman 
  To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views 
  Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 1:17 PM
  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] NEW ARTS ORGANIZATION TO AWARD 


  Gosh, what's wrong with me?  My impulse is to want to go bomb these shits.  "America's finest living artists."  I bet--without so much as visiting their website.  Gotta start the new year right.

  --Bob
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: JforJames at aol.com 
    To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu 
    Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 12:29 PM
    Subject: [New-Poetry] NEW ARTS ORGANIZATION TO AWARD 


    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.





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