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Ambitious new art and cultural projects are opening in Qatar as the country gears up to welcome a flood of visitors for the FIFA World Cup in 2022.The newly opened national museum, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, is a national project which hosts immersive art to provide a space for the past and the future to meet.
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After two years of hearings and legislative advocacy, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the Texas Commission on the Arts 2020-21 budget into law on June 15. The budget adds $250,000 for Exceptional Item #3—Arts Healing Grants for Active Service Members and Veterans to be administered under the state Arts Respond program.
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Americans for the Arts today announced that the Southside Civic Lab of Fayetteville, Arkansas, has been awarded the Robert E. Gard Award. The award recognizes and celebrates exemplary work at the intersection of the arts and community life, and was presented this morning at Americans for the Arts’ 2019 Annual Convention in Minneapolis.
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Research from The Boston Foundation and Barr Foundation has shown that Boston, MA, needs to further prioritize investment in an arts ecosystem in order to elevate new perspectives, encourage diversity, and make communities more inclusive and vibrant in an era of increasing demographic change.
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Americans for the Arts today honored 50 outstanding public arts projects created in 2018 through the Public Art Network Year in Review program, the only national program that specifically recognizes the most compelling public art. Chosen by public art experts, the roster of selected projects was unveiled this morning at Americans for the Arts’ Annual Convention in Minneapolis. This is the 18th year that Americans for the Arts has recognized public art works.
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This June marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising against police harassment and discrimination on LGBTQ individuals. It was recently announced that a monument honoring Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera will be installed in New York. The work was commissioned by She Built NYC, a public arts campaign aiming to highlight women trailblazers to celebrate and bring public awareness towards their accomplishments and historical impacts.
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Hundreds of high school students at LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts staged a sit-in protest in favor of retaining LaGuardia’s historically arts focused curriculum rather than shifting towards stricter academic requirements.
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The Americans for the Arts Action Fund (Arts Action Fund) today announced a new podcast series called ArtsVote 2020 with Ben Folds. Acclaimed singer-songwriter, Americans for the Arts Artists Committee Member, and ArtsVote 2020 Chair Ben Folds hosts the podcast series and is accompanied by former U.S. Senator Mark Begich of Alaska. The bipartisan series is the only one of its kind interviewing 2020 presidential candidates exclusively on the arts and arts education.
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Mindful Music Moments, a relaxation program based in Ohio, collaborated with the Cleveland Orchestra to provide students in the Greater Cleveland area classical listening segments to decompress and relax before the school day starts.
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Americans for the Arts Artists Committee member Shepard Fairey was one of 31 artists who recently contributed public art to Dr. Maya Angelou Community High School in South Los Angeles, where two dozen new murals turned the drab building into “an explosion of color and story.”
