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NEA, Regional, and Private Support for Individual Artists
by Jules White
Excerpt - While direct grants to individuals awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts are not as numerous, there are many grants available through regional arts councils and private funding, as well as through state arts agencies. This article focuses on NEA, regional arts agency, and private grants to individuals.....In 1996 Congress eliminated most of the NEA’s funding for individuals—except in literature and in Heritage and Jazz Masters (E-mail Cherie Simon March 30 2000). The current policies of the NEA concerning supporting individual artists is summed up in a letter from Saralyn Reece Hardy (Director of Museums and Visual Arts, NEA): More...

The Harry Ransom Center For The Humanities
by Steven Smith
Excerpt - Once one delves past the gratifying eye-candy at the HRC--a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the world’s first photograph (taken in France in 1826), the set of authentic Scarlett O’Hara dresses worn by Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind--a certain logic to the holdings becomes apparent. Despite the fine Pforzheimer Library containing a first edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost and a Shakespeare First Folio, notwithstanding the excellent collection of Alexander Pope, Voltaire and illustrated William Blake volumes that grace the shelves, the inevitable conclusion that every visitor makes is that this place is about the twentieth century, with the nineteenth century in a strong supporting role. What is so remarkable is the sheer breadth and depth of the HRC’s literary and artistic collections chronicling this rapidly closing century. More...