Arts

Design Is Key to Expanding the 21st Century Neighborhood Library

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12/13/2016

Julie Sandorf, president, Charles H. Revson Foundation, asks, "How might branches reutilize limited area to meet not only significantly increased demand but also diversified needs for space?"

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The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Views the Arts as a "Community Anchor"

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12/12/2016

“High-impact” and “visionary” are two terms the Bank of America Charitable Foundation uses to describe the organizations that earn its support. In the realm of arts and culture, that boils down to high-impact and visionary programs that contribute...

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Public-Private Partnership With Ford, Surdna, Niarchos, Bloomberg, Mellon, and Rockefeller Award Placemaking Grants Totaling $11 Million

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12/09/2016

ArtPlace America, a public-private partnership that works to position arts and culture as a core sector of comprehensive community planning and development, has announced grants totaling $11 million to twenty-nine creative placemaking projects in...

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Stonewall Community Foundation Is Key Funder of Trans and Queer Storytelling

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12/09/2016

Vertigo Theater Company’s new play Street Children centers around a group of young people, largely queer and trans youth of color, played by actors who actually fit the bill.

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Rockefeller Foundation Choses Lincoln Center to Manage its NYC Cultural Innovation Fund

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12/02/2016

Lincoln Center announced today that they have been chosen by the Rockefeller Foundation to manage the foundation’s New York City Cultural Innovation Fund (NYC CIF).

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Wallace Foundation Supports Alvin Ailey Program to Inspire Young New Yorkers

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12/01/2016

The Ailey organization is launching a Young New York program in conjunction with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's annual holiday season at New York City Center (November 30 - December 31).

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Mellon Foundation and NEH Recognize College Professor for Book on Israel

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11/29/2016

Gary S. Schiff’s first book, “Tradition and Politics: The Religious Parties of Israel,” has been selected under a $773,761 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as a “great humanities book.”

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Mellon and Doris Duke Foundations Back New Report Highlighting 20 Years of NEFA’s National Dance Project

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11/18/2016

The New England Foundation for the Arts released a comprehensive evaluation of the National Dance Project- backed by Mellon & Doris Duke Foundations -and new research about current needs of the dance field.

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Arts Are A Strategy To Build Racial Equity

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11/15/2016

Randy Engstrom, director the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture at the NY Community Trust, writes about arts as a strategy to address racial equity in housing, criminal justice, education, jobs, the environment and more.

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Wallace Foundation Supports a Transgender Story Told Through Opera

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11/11/2016

As One, a chamber opera with only two singers, tells the story of Hannah, a transwoman, and her journey to self-understanding. The opera is meant to be both an experience, and a vehicle for meaningful conversation.