NEW FOUNDATION SEEKS PROVOCATIVE ARTISTS FOR GRANTS.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of CITY--Hurry! The new Creative Capital Foundation is giving away $1 million to individual artists, and the application deadline is August 16. Dancers and choreographers This is a list of choreographers A
Founded in January, Creative Capital will attempt to fill the void left by the NEA NEA abbr. 1. National Education Association 2. National Endowment for the Arts NEA (US) n abbr (= National Education Association) → Verband für das Erziehungswesen when it stopped funding individual artists due to heated national controversies over work like Mapplethorpe's homoerotic ho·mo·e·rot·ic adj. 1. Of or concerning homosexual love and desire. 2. Tending to arouse such desire. Adj. 1. photographs or Karen Finley's naked performance art. Creative Capital isn't setting out to ignite controversy, per se. But it is explicitly seeking to support provocative work. "It's totally American to challenge convention. It's downright patriotic," says Ruby Lerner, the Foundation's executive director and so far its only full-time employee. "Women wouldn't be allowed to vote if somebody hadn't challenged convention." To fund this allegiant endeavor, the Foundation has raised $5 million, and hopes to increase that amount to $40 million over the next twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. . The money has come mostly from private foundations. This year, Creative Capital will give away up to sixty grants at $5,000 to $20,000 each. Artists must use the money not only to develop creatively, but to gain a business sensibility to better market and promote their work. This isn't an entirely selfless mission, however: artists who turn a profit must give a percentage back to the Foundation. The good news is that Creative Capital will focus on young and mid-career artists, so those who have already proven themselves commercially viable won't automatically receive all available funds. "Does somebody like Paul Taylor
Meanwhile, NEA chairman William J. Ivey continues to push for the reinstatement of public funds See Fund, 3. See also: Public for individual artists (currently only available in jazz, literature, and folk art folk art, the art works of a culturally homogeneous people produced by artists without formal training. The forms of such works are generally developed into a tradition that is either cut off from or tenuously connected to the contemporary cultural mainstream. ). Lerner says she hopes Creative Capital will assist Ivey's efforts by "making it sexy to support American creativity." It remains to be seen, however, how "sexy" Congress is willing to be. Creative Capital's grant application and guidelines can be found online at www.creative-capital.org. |
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