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Americans for the Arts announces that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Maureen Dowd will deliver The Americans for the Arts 27th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy, a leading national forum for arts policy, intended to stimulate discussion of policy and social issues affecting the arts.
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The Boston mayoral race between state Rep. Martin Walsh and Boston City Councilor John Conolly may show the two candidate’s differences, but there is certainly one common theme shining through—art and culture as the centerpiece for both campaigns. As the first open mayoral race in 20 years, there seems to be more room for different ideas and influence from Boston’s cultural communities.
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Gary Sinise and his Foundation were honored Wednesday, October 23 at a small lunch at the Park Hyatt Hotel hosted by Capitol File magazine, which was also the 30th anniversary of the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.
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During National Arts and Humanities Month, a nonprofit organization in Venice, California used art to help survivors of domestic abuse express painful feelings and heal from their truamatic experiences.
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Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education, today announced that Peter Eom and Liisi LaFontaine were this year’s recipients of the National Arts Policy Roundtable Fellowship, an award given annually to alumni of the National YoungArts Foundation.
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Americans for the Arts, the leading organization for advancing the arts and arts education in the US, celebrated the 2013 annual National Arts Awards on Monday, October 21, at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City, raising $800,000 in support of the arts and arts education.
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Americans for the Arts, the leading organization for advancing the arts and arts education in the US, celebrated the 2013 National Arts Awards on Monday, October 21, at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City, raising more than $800,000 in support of the arts and arts education. Hosted during National Arts and Humanities month, the black-tie event was chaired by Maria Bell alongside co‐chairs Sarah Arison, Edythe and Eli Broad, Carolyn Powers, Julie and Edward J. Minskoff, as well as Theodor Dalenson, Americans for the Arts Board member, and his wife Isabella Dalenson.
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After the 16 day shutdown, Congress voted late last night to reopen federal agencies, raise the $16.7 trillion debt limit, and call hundreds of thousands of civil servants back to work. An agreement struck by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) ended a stalemate created last month when conservative GOP members used the threat of a shutdown in an attempt to block Obamacare.
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Americans for the Arts' CEO and President, Robert Lynch, was selected to be on the 2013-2014 Advisory Committee for the Commitee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP), along with 13 other members from the coporate, government, nonprofit, consulting, media, and academic fields.
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It's the 16th of October, and also Day 16 of the government shutdown.
The House discharge petition (the Miller/Van Hollen effort mentioned in our last update) that would provide a “clean Continuing Resolution” now has 196 signatures, short of the 218 needed to move to a vote on the House floor. No Republicans have signed.
