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Fine Arts Camp finalist for national grant - KCAW

Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:53pm EST

Fine Arts Camp finalist for national grant
KCAW
Roger Schmidt is executive director of Alaska Arts Southeast. He says the goal of the money is to help create places for art to happen. “They decided there was a really important role that art had in making a community livable and, if you will, ...

'Cultural Core' group poised to start spending money to promote downtown arts - Deseret News

Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:52pm EST

'Cultural Core' group poised to start spending money to promote downtown arts
Deseret News
By Steve Fidel, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — The first money from an agreement between Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County to promote arts in the downtown "Cultural Core" will be spent this year. The new 20-year agreement will draw as much as $500000 ...

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Hip-hop artist mixes culture, emotions - San Antonio Express

Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:42pm EST

Hip-hop artist mixes culture, emotions
San Antonio Express
By Jim Beal Jr. Hip-hop artist and producer Greg G's second CD, "Gold Rush," includes spiritual and populist elements. Gregary Griffin knows how to adapt. And he knows good advice when he hears it. "I was born in Houston and raised in West Palm Beach, ...

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Dancers, stars together once again - Branson Tri-Lakes news

Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:29pm EST

Dancers, stars together once again
Branson Tri-Lakes news
By Tyler Francke | 0 comments Local celebrities, community leaders and professional dancers will once again team up to raise money for the Branson Arts Council at the Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater Feb. 29. The charity event, known as Dancing ...

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Art funding program sparks controversy in Chile - Santiago Times

Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:07pm EST

Art funding program sparks controversy in Chile
Santiago Times
This assertion can be identified in the distribution of this year's funds with $166 million pesos (about US$347000) going to The Mori Center, a long established institute dedicated to the performing arts in Santiago. The actress Malucha Pinto, ...

What is the Public in Public Art in Athens? - Patch.com

Posted: February 7th, 2012, 4:25pm EST

What is the Public in Public Art in Athens?
Patch.com
Last month, Commissioner Jared Bailey said he misunderstood the wording of a proposal not to spend any money on art at the jail, and he voted what he later said was in error. He is expected to challenge the minutes and change his vote—making the tally ...
AC Commission to vote again on jail artOnline Athens

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Arts funding dips a little in Gov. Corbett's 2012-13 budget proposal - Patriot-News

Posted: February 7th, 2012, 2:36pm EST

Patriot-News

Arts funding dips a little in Gov. Corbett's 2012-13 budget proposal
Patriot-News
By DAVID N. DUNKLE, The Patriot-News Arts and culture take a slight hit under Gov. Tom Corbett's proposed 2012-13 budget. But after years of steady declines in arts funding, central Pennsylvania arts groups are likely to be somewhat cheered by the ...

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Portrait of the artist as a curmudgeon - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:59am EST

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Portrait of the artist as a curmudgeon
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Logan brings up the age-old argument about art vs. commerce. Is Rothko's accepting a commission from a trendy restaurant selling out? But doesn't an artist need money, too? But while “Red” seems less than fresh in its themes, it's never as boring as ...

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Singapore Considers “No-Censorship Zones” - Wall Street Journal (blog)

Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:04am EST

Singapore Considers “No-Censorship Zones”
Wall Street Journal (blog)
What's the best way to encourage the fledgling arts scene in Singapore and help the city-state's quest to become Southeast Asia's answer to Broadway or the West End – besides, of course, spending hundreds of millions of dollars of state money on the ...

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Tradition and innovation - BusinessWorld Online Edition

Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:11am EST

Tradition and innovation
BusinessWorld Online Edition
... and “distributing money as if [it] were just pan de sal” during last year's budget hearing, the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) returns with the Philippine Arts Festival (PAF), which promises to be the “biggest and grandest” yet.

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American Violet: A Film Review - The NEIU Independent

Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:08am EST

American Violet: A Film Review
The NEIU Independent
By Jacklyn Nowotnik - Arts & Life Editor "What's happening in Melody is happening all over our country. Drug task forces use military tactics to terrorize poor people. Drug laws specifically target people of color. Mean- while federal money goes to ...

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Inside the Index: skills and value - The Guardian (blog)

Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:39am EST

The Guardian (blog)

Inside the Index: skills and value
The Guardian (blog)
The previous three articles in this series have dealt with the very serious business of money: where it comes from, how it's earned and spent, and how much there is saved for the rainy days ahead. But to measure the health of the arts in purely ...

Belichick as Artist in Pats' Defeat - Harvard Crimson

Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:11am EST

Belichick as Artist in Pats' Defeat
Harvard Crimson
While the Yanks' fortune is in money, however, the Pats' unmatched asset has been Belichick's genius. His powerful mind is unafraid of a turn to the dark arts. The score: 17 to 15 Pats. One minute and four seconds left. Second down.

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How have Legacy funds helped arts education in Minnesota schools? - Twin Cities Planet

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 11:18pm EST

Twin Cities Planet

How have Legacy funds helped arts education in Minnesota schools?
Twin Cities Planet
By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet New state money for arts education began to flow in 2010, funded by the Legacy Amendment, but that may not add up to more arts education. “Education,” after all, is a fairly broad term, and can include programming that ...
With Legacy fund 'backfilling' of budget cuts, Legislature seems to be ...MinnPost.com (blog)
Rock Bend Festival Receives $20k In Legacy GrantKEYC TV

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Kelowna announces arts, cultural and heritage grants - Kelowna Capital News

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:57pm EST

Kelowna announces arts, cultural and heritage grants
Kelowna Capital News
By Alistair Waters - Kelowna Capital News Kelowna city council has approved a total of $180000 in operating and project grants for 35 local non-profit arts, culture and heritage groups and $95000 for three professional arts groups. The money for the ...

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Carmel Leaders, Ex-Arts Center CEO Call Truce - WRTV Indianapolis

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:06pm EST

Carmel Leaders, Ex-Arts Center CEO Call Truce
WRTV Indianapolis
CARMEL, Ind. -- The city of Carmel and the former CEO of the Center for the Performing Arts have called a truce over accusations of inappropriate use of company money. Steven Libman, 51, who abruptly resigned in July 2011 amid scrutiny about spending ...

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The Most Generous People in America - Forbes

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:54pm EST

Christian Science Monitor

The Most Generous People in America
Forbes
The Chronicle's twelfth annual Philanthropy 50 list comprises old and new money, longtime charity givers and fresh donors, famous philanthropists and unfamiliar names. While 47 of Americas 50 most charitable people are men, the late Margaret A. Cargill ...
Report says charitable donations from top 50 donors catching up to pre ...Washington Post

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Artists' refuge on Main St. - Henderson State University Oracle

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:45pm EST

Artists' refuge on Main St.
Henderson State University Oracle
"There's just no promise here," said Kelly Thomas, a freshman art major. "It's just empty." Thomas believes that most students are not majoring in art in order to make a profession out of it, and that the students are not being trained to make money ...

Famous art detective Robert Wittman speaks at Center for the Arts fundraiser - The News-Press

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 11:16am EST

Famous art detective Robert Wittman speaks at Center for the Arts fundraiser
The News-Press
“We did get them back eventually,” says Wittman, now a private security consultant. “The thieves weren't looking for art when they broke in. They were looking for jewelry and money. “It took us about a year to get the art back.

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Norwich Arts Center raising money with wine tasting - Norwich Bulletin (blog)

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:32am EST

Norwich Arts Center raising money with wine tasting
Norwich Bulletin (blog)
By KELLY-ANN FRANKLIN The Norwich Arts Center is hoping an evening of wine, beer and food will entice people to donate money to support cultural programming at NAC. NAC will present "A Spirits Tasting" at 5:30 pm Feb. 16 at the Donald L. Oat Theater in ...

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'Art from the Heart' fundraiser on Feb. 9 to benefit Mary B. Austin art programs - Press-Register - al.com (blog)

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:34am EST

Press-Register - al.com (blog)

'Art from the Heart' fundraiser on Feb. 9 to benefit Mary B. Austin art programs
Press-Register - al.com (blog)
9 from 6 to 9 pm The school's parent-teacher association is hosting “Art from the Heart” to raise funds for art instruction for all students in grades kindergarten through fifth grade. The money also pays for the program's two art teachers.

Baldwin High's culinary arts program at risk under proposal - Lawrence Journal World

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:34am EST

Baldwin High's culinary arts program at risk under proposal
Lawrence Journal World
By Elvyn Jones Baldwin High School's culinary arts program is popular, successful and may not be around much longer. The threat to the program is Gov. Sam Brownback's K-12 school finance reform proposal. Should that pass as presented to the Kansas ...

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The Idler: A Japanese art evening - Independent Online

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:08am EST

Independent Online

The Idler: A Japanese art evening
Independent Online
By The Idler, Graham Linscott A spectator hands money to a performer at a Tong Setan (Devil's Drum) motorcycle performance to commemorate the Prophet Muhammad s birthday in the square of Kraton Yogyakarta palace in Yogyakarta, Java, yesterday.

Kent artist, "character' Robert E. Wood dies - Ravenna Record Courier

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:40am EST

Kent artist, "character' Robert E. Wood dies
Ravenna Record Courier
Kluth said as a gallery owner, the story he likes to tell most about Wood is when he tried to encourage him to appeal to the customer base in Kent to make more money off his art. “He consistently refused,” Kluth said. “He said 'I am an artist and I'm ...

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Arts Council braces for hit to funding - News-Press Now

Posted: February 5th, 2012, 11:59pm EST

Arts Council braces for hit to funding
News-Press Now
“We're planning on at least half of our (state) funding being cut for next year,” said Teresa Fankhauser, regional vice president of Missouri Citizens for the Arts. “And then the following year, there will be no money left.” Such cuts may be alleviated ...

Investment in performing arts center is money wisely spent - The Olympian

Posted: February 5th, 2012, 4:00pm EST

Investment in performing arts center is money wisely spent
The Olympian
CAPPA convinced Olympia Mayor Tom Allen to pledge a 28-acre former garbage dump site on Black Lake Boulevard for an arts center, that skyrocketed in value from $200000 to $2.5 million in just five years. But before CAPPA could raise all the funds to ...

DIVIDING DIVISIONS: What's at Stake in the Theater vs. Visual Arts Debate - Brooklyn Rail

Posted: February 5th, 2012, 1:29pm EST

DIVIDING DIVISIONS: What's at Stake in the Theater vs. Visual Arts Debate
Brooklyn Rail
The most obvious answer, particularly within the context of the US arts economy, is money. All those on the panel (who, by and large, work within the visual arts) attempted to quash any discussion of there being more or less money in one field or ...

Vancouver gallery aims to help Kosovo blossom by nurturing artists - The Columbian

Posted: February 5th, 2012, 9:08am EST

Vancouver gallery aims to help Kosovo blossom by nurturing artists
The Columbian
It's part of an effort to increase understanding for the country, which he visited in October, and to raise funds to help encourage art projects there. There are a lot of empty walls in the many coffeehouses along the streets of Gjilan in Kosovo.

Instead of celebrating art, El Fan Midan mourns attacks in Egyptian football ... - Ahram Online

Posted: February 5th, 2012, 8:38am EST

Instead of celebrating art, El Fan Midan mourns attacks in Egyptian football ...
Ahram Online
A photography exhibition collected Egyptian graffiti, which the photographer, Shady Youssef uses to help raise money for El Fan Midan through his sales. The Coalition for Youth of Fine arts designed a large memorial to the Ultras Ahly, ...

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Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965): The Met meets Mao - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Posted: February 5th, 2012, 8:13am EST

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965): The Met meets Mao
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
“Baoshi” means “embracing stones,” and it's a name he took when he started his seal-carving studio while he was still in high school, as a way to make money. His father had apparently started with the same idea, and may have introduced him to the work.

Arts Council among couple dozen groups seeking taxpayer funding - WECT-TV6

Posted: February 5th, 2012, 7:07am EST

Arts Council among couple dozen groups seeking taxpayer funding
WECT-TV6
The newly formed Arts Council, which formed at the end of last year to promote and support the local arts community, is also making a budget request of $25000. Paperwork filed with the county states that money will help marketing efforts and ensure a ...

Diverted funds aid Perdue projects - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Posted: February 5th, 2012, 5:00am EST

Diverted funds aid Perdue projects
Atlanta Journal Constitution
The University System redirected money several times and approved using money to pay for renovations of an Armstrong Atlantic State University fine arts hall despite the fact that Perdue had previously vetoed funds for the project.

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24-hour art painting marathon held for charity - Bloomington Pantagraph

Posted: February 4th, 2012, 6:30pm EST

24-hour art painting marathon held for charity
Bloomington Pantagraph
The Bloomington resident on Saturday was completing a 24-hour stint in front of a canvas, painting a 5-by-8-foot acrylic work to raise money for charity. Beran was among 12 area artists who took part in Masterpiece Marathon, a "paint-a-thon" event ...

Norman Arts Council presents 2012 ONE Fundraiser - NewsOK.com

Posted: February 4th, 2012, 3:23pm EST

Norman Arts Council presents 2012 ONE Fundraiser
NewsOK.com
ONE will celebrate all the arts in Norman as well as serve as the Norman Arts Council's only fundraising event. “Organizations must raise money to support their operations,” said NAC Executive Director Erinn Gavaghan in a news release.

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A Super Bowl Close-Up For The Indianapolis Arts Scene - Forbes

Posted: February 4th, 2012, 3:01pm EST

Forbes

A Super Bowl Close-Up For The Indianapolis Arts Scene
Forbes
Yet they may be surprised to find, just blocks from the stadium, the Turf IDADA Art Pavilion, a contemporary-art exhibition planned specifically for the big game. A collaboration between the Indianapolis Downtown Artists & Dealers Association, ...
Super Bowl Lands on Taxpayers' BacksBloomberg
Indianapolis transformed into Super Bowl 2012 centralIndianapolis Star
What Indianapolis Hosting Super Bowl XLVI Means to a Hoosier: Local Fan ...Yahoo! Sports

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17th Annual Brew HaHa a Big Hit - KOLO

Posted: February 4th, 2012, 1:52pm EST

17th Annual Brew HaHa a Big Hit
KOLO
SPARKS, NV - For the last seventeen years the Brew HaHa has raised funds for the Sierra Arts Foundation. “It's our major fundraiser of the year, we've been doing it for 17 years and John Ascuaga's Nugget is an amazing host,” Sierra Arts Interim ...

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For art's sake, the gallery confronts its new challenges - Sydney Morning Herald

Posted: February 4th, 2012, 11:03am EST

Sydney Morning Herald

For art's sake, the gallery confronts its new challenges
Sydney Morning Herald
We have got back to regularly collecting works of art — we buy the occasional Old Master — most of the money we spend on buying art, in a numerical sense, most of the artworks we acquire each year are contemporary. Last year in the 150th anniversary ...

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Is India's Art Market Making a Comeback? - Wall Street Journal (blog)

Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 11:31pm EST

Is India's Art Market Making a Comeback?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Months after that, the financial downturn hit art markets world-wide and India's wasn't spared. In that period, prices of Indian art fell by more than half. This took a toll on several art funds that had been set up a few years earlier.

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Paint the Town Pink spreads throughout Austin - Examiner.com

Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:33pm EST

Paint the Town Pink spreads throughout Austin
Examiner.com
This year, thanks to the direction of a few people on the Austin Conventions and Visitors Bureau board, this fundraising effort has spread throughout town including the arts. Funds have been collected all week through business ventures donating a ...

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Norwalk 2.0 seeks to create public art with HUD money - The Hour

Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:11pm EST

Norwalk 2.0 seeks to create public art with HUD money
The Hour
Lauricella, who didn't name the arts or environmental projects, spoke during a public hearing on the preliminary applications for $935749 in community development block grant money provided by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, ...

Taxing for the arts - Park Record

Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:56pm EST

Taxing for the arts
Park Record
Every even year the grant money goes to art organizations and every odd year it goes to supports parks and recreation facilities and programs. Most organizations are slated to receive a comparable amount of grant money in 2012 as in 2010, ...

In Dayton: Arts groups merge to save money - Orlando Sentinel

Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:06pm EST

In Dayton: Arts groups merge to save money
Orlando Sentinel
Interesting cultural news from Ohio today: The Dayton Opera, Dayton Ballet and Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra have announced they expect to merge and form the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance. The groups say through sharing, they can cut overhead costs.

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Music & Arts Alumni To Honor Teachers, Raise Money For Piano - Webster Kirkwood Times

Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 9:26am EST

Music & Arts Alumni To Honor Teachers, Raise Money For Piano
Webster Kirkwood Times
Students of Esther Replogle, Hans J. Lemcke, Eugene "Woody" Woods, and Edwin "Pete" Myers will gather to perform a concert to raise funds for the WGHS fine arts department. The Statesmen Alumni Benefit Concert is a one-time-only opportunity to see ...

David Choe, Facebook's Millionaire Graffiti Artist - Daily Beast

Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 5:00am EST

Daily Beast

David Choe, Facebook's Millionaire Graffiti Artist
Daily Beast
(Although, to be fair, Choe's work wasn't sold in auction, and there's little way of knowing whether other privately owned art ever changed hands secretly for much more money than that.) Born in Los Angeles in 1976 to Korean immigrant parents, ...
David Choe's Facebook friends react to his IPO windfallWashington Post (blog)

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Alexandria Zoo hopes beaver's paintings will generate revenue, interest - Alexandria Town Talk

Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:52am EST

Alexandria Zoo hopes beaver's paintings will generate revenue, interest
Alexandria Town Talk
"They have made a ton of money off that beaver's paintings to go to different organizations in Shreveport." Whitt hopes to raise awareness about Caddo's talent and, in turn, raise some money for FOTAZ. "It's like some kind of fad art," Whitt said.

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Grant money available for arts, cultural events - Grand Junction Free Press

Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:11am EST

Grant money available for arts, cultural events
Grand Junction Free Press
The Grand Junction Commission on Arts and Culture's annual grant program has been in place since 1992. By awarding grant money, the idea is to incentivize the community to produce high quality arts and cultural activities and projects, build audiences ...
Still marvellous after all these years, the Grand turns 100Calgary Herald

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Talented artists need base - Aspen Times

Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:07am EST

Talented artists need base
Aspen Times
I was lucky enough to be artist-in-residence in my third-floor, glass-encased studio looking up Red Mountain. Our success was phenomenal. We formed as a co-op with each of the 14 artists having contributed minimal funds to support the premises until ...

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Santa Monica may remove cartoonist Conrad's sculpture - Los Angeles Times

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 10:03pm EST

Los Angeles Times

Santa Monica may remove cartoonist Conrad's sculpture
Los Angeles Times
However, the panel also urged that restoration proponents — and Conrad's family — be given a six-month window to raise money to restore the 5 1/2-ton creation. Funds for maintaining Santa Monica's public art collection have been scarce for years, ...
Damaged 'Chain Reaction' sculpture needs a saviorSanta Monica Daily Press
City Prepared to Give Up On Corroded Anti-Nuke SculpturePatch.com

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Bristol goes virtual for art lessons - phillyBurbs.com

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 6:51pm EST

Bristol goes virtual for art lessons
phillyBurbs.com
Like many surrounding school districts, Bristol is strapped for money. But that hasn't stopped one educator from providing his students with arts and cultural education, which is usually first on the chopping block during budget talks.

Loss of support threatens arts center - The Island Now

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:43pm EST

Loss of support threatens arts center
The Island Now
Although the Village of Thomaston had entered into contracts with the arts center in years past, Mayor Robert Stern last month said that his community had not offered money to the organization for several years. The Great Neck Arts center was supported ...

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