Art in the News - 2019
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Founded 20 years ago, this mission driven organization performs in venues randing from concert halls to correctional facilities. Sarasa includes presentations specifically at youth facilities into its regular season schedule.
Every summer, from Armed Services Day to Labor Day, Blue Star Museums offer free admission to active duty military personnel and their families, including National Guard and Reserve. This year, the Blue Star Museums program begins on Saturday, May 18, 2019 and will end on Monday, September 2, 2019.
The MTA Arts & Design program is being heralded as a leader in gender diversity in both musuem-based and public art collections. A longtime member of Americans for the Arts’ Public Art Network, MTA Arts & Design has a 48 percent representation of female artists in thier public art collection compared to a representation of 13 percent from top museums across the U.S.
In Maryland, the designation comes with tax benefits for artists to live, work, and perform within the district, as well as tax credits for new construction or renovations of certain buildings that create live-work spaces for artists or other creative enterprises.
Springboard for the Arts and the Helicon Collaborative have co-developed and released a new report and framework called Creative People Power that begins from the premise that arts and culture are “a renewable natural resource for building communities.”
How does the first Latinx performer to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award continue to top her own accomplishments? By earning a Peabody Career Achievement Award, of course!
Dancing makes people happy. Its energy and endorphins have a way of embracing positivity. Or, if you’re Instagrammer Donté Colley, then dancing can quite literally support, highlight, or shimmy happiness, love, and gratitude.
“The Embrace,” a proposed sculpture by two Americans for the Arts 2019 Annual Convention keynote speakers — Artist Hank Willis Thomas and Michael Murphy, co-founder and executive director of MASS Design Group — has been selected for a memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King in Boston Common.
The goal is to engage and empower arts supporters to become arts activists in order to advocate for increased public funding for the arts and educate legislators to the impact of arts, culture and creativity in California. An Advocacy Day and rally is scheduled for April 23, 2019 in Sacramento.
In addition to overseeing the state and regional portfolios and maintaining his work overseeing international activities of the Endowment, Orlove will also take over grantmaking portfolios related to local arts agencies.
