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Washington, D.C. –The National Endowment for the Arts has selected Clifford Murphy as its new director of folk and traditional arts, effective August 24, 2015. Murphy will manage NEA grantmaking in folk and traditional arts, oversee the NEA National Heritage Fellowship program,...
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WASHINGTON – Nearly 28 million U.S. adults have some type of disability related to hearing, sight, cognition, walking, and other activities of daily living. The latest NEA research offers the first, nationally representative analysis of arts-participation patterns among people...
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Washington, DC --The tri-annual public meeting of the National Council on the Arts takes place on Friday, June 26, 2015, and will be live webcast at arts.gov from 9:00 to 11:30 am EDT. The meeting includes agency business as well as guest presentations. An archived version of...