Tow Foundation Announces Six Playwright Residencies
Release Date:
02/25/2016
The Tow Foundation-supported residency will give six emerging playwrights creative homes at theatres in New York City.
Arts, Culture, & Media
Design Thinking for Advocates: Don’t Knock it Till You Try It
Release Date:
02/23/2016
Salem Tsegaye of the New York Community Trust says that funders who support collaborative planning should consider this creative process for negotiating differences toward shared results.
With Mellon Support, Smithsonian to Create National Art Database
Release Date:
02/22/2016
The Smithsonian American Art Museum, and 14 institutions from around the country, are building a shared, and searchable, online database that could spur research and scholarship about American art.
American Express-Supported NYFA Emerging Leaders Boot Camp Participants Named
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02/18/2016
As the intensive professional-development program from the New York Foundation for the Arts turns three, a new cohort of arts administrators has been selected.
Rauschenberg Foundation Partners With Art in America to Launch Pilot Writing Fellowship
Release Date:
02/17/2016
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, in partnership with Art in America, has launched a pilot writing fellowship to support arts and culture writing in regions of the country that are often underrepresented in the media. The goal of the program is to...
Backed by Mellon Grant, UVA Establishes New Center to Study Indigenous Art
Release Date:
02/16/2016
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia announced a grant of $815,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which will be utilized to create a research center for the study of the indigenous art of Australia and the Americas at The...
Q&A with Sreenivasan: The Met Engages Audiences with Digital Technology (Bloomberg Philanthropies)
Release Date:
02/02/2016
Through innovative partnerships and bold approaches, the Bloomberg Philanthropies arts program increases access to culture using new technologies. The chief digital officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art discusses the intersection of art and...
'Embrace of the Serpent' Wins Sloan Foundation Prize at Sundance for Portrayal of Science
Release Date:
01/29/2016
The Colombian film "Embrace of the Serpent," already up for the Academy Award in the Foreign-Language Film category, won The Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
Supported By Many PNY Members, 2016 Creative Capital Awards Given In Literature, Performing Arts
Release Date:
01/13/2016
Creative Capital awarded grants to artist-activists, who are engaging some of the most significant and hotly debated issues of our time. Projects receiving funding span a wide range of genres and forms.
Chosen by Librarians, 2016 Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Announced
Release Date:
01/12/2016
The American Library Association announced the winners of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction during the ALA Midwinter meeting in Boston.
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