TO: Nashville Arts Organizations,
24 May 2002
Mayor recommends $250,000 increase in Metro Arts Commission grants budget
Mayor Bill Purcell recommended a $250,000 increase in the Metro Nashville Arts Commission's grants budget for fiscal year 2002-2003 today. The Mayor presented his budget to Metro Council members this morning at the Courthouse. Finance Director David Manning briefed the Council on budget details.
If the Metro Council approves the Mayor's recommendation, the grants budget would increase to slightly more than $2.1 million.
The Mayor also proposed an additional $30,000 in nonrecurring funds for the MNAC's operations budget. The Arts Commission requested the money to begin involving the public in the public art process.
The MNAC received 64 grant requests in five different categories for $3,168,981 this year. Grant panels will meet with the 40 applicant organizations over the next five weeks, then make grant award recommendations to the Arts Commission around the time the Council approves the Metro budget.
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Dr. Carolynn Reid-Wallace named to Arts Commission
Dr. Carolynn Reid-Wallace, president of Fisk University, was confirmed as a member of the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission by the Metro Council on May 9.
Mayor Bill Purcell named Reid-Wallace to fill the unexpired term of Adelaide Vienneau, who resigned in November. The term runs to January 1, 2004.
Dr. Reid-Wallace, a Fisk alumna, is the 13th president of the university. Previously, she spent five years as Senior Vice President for Education and Programming at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Washington. In 1991 she was a presidential appointee to the position of Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education.
No stranger to academia, Dr. Reid-Wallace was Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the City University of New York before going to the nation's capital. She earned a doctorate in English and American Literature from George Washington University and an M.A. from Adelphia University. She had administrative and teaching appointments at Bowie State College, Grinnell College, Howard University, and at CUNY.
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Arts Commission to hold slide sessions for artists
Securing good documentation of one's artwork can be a challenge for artists and craftsmen no matter how experienced they are. To overcome this obstacle the Metro Nashville Arts Commission will hold two Slide Sessions in June for Davidson County artists.
Dates and times: Friday, June 14, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, June 15, from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. for two-dimensional works. Three-dimensional work will be photographed Saturday afternoon.
Location: Watkins College of Art and Design, 100 Powell Place, across from 100 Oaks Shopping Mall.
There will be no charge for Metro Photographer Gary Layda's services, but artists will be charged a flat fee of $10.50 for each image photographed. Up to five works per artist can be photographed, with a time limit of 30 minutes per artist. Artists will receive one slide plus a digital image on CD-rom of each piece of art. Reservations for the Slide Sessions are required. The schedule will be filled on a first come, first served basis. Open to Davidson County artists.
Once artists have slides of their work made they can participate in the MNAC's on-line Artist Registry. The Registry enables artists to show their work in a virtual exhibit far beyond Tennessee's borders.
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Arts Commission names new Public Art Committee
A seven-member Public Art Committee was named at the April Metro Arts Commission meeting to guide Nashville's new public art program. MNAC Chairman Walter Schatz announced the appointments and will serve ex-officio as a Committee member.
Dr. Paulette Coleman, immediate past chair of the MNAC, will head the committee. Other members include MNAC Commissioner Barbara Chazen; Gary Everton, architect with Everton Oglesby Askew Architects; Kim Hawkins, landscape architect with Hawkins Partners, Inc.; Mark Scala, curator, Frist Center for the Visual Arts; Luke Simons, art collector and UBS Paine Webber executive, and Joe Sorci, artist and sculptor.
The group will hold an orientation session in mid June and begin deliberations soon after as Metro construction projects "trigger" the approved Public Art Guidelines.
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Arts education boosts scores, new report says
Far from being "frills," arts education programs help make it easier for many students to master academic subjects such as reading and math, according to a new report entitled Critical Links.
The Arts Education Partnership publication reviews 62 different studies of how arts programs motivate students - especially those at risk of failing - to learn academic subjects and develop other important skills, such as concentration, creativity, self-control, and empathy.
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Nashville hosts Americans for the Arts
Over 600 representatives of the nation's arts councils and commissions will be in Nashville June 6-10 for the annual Americans for the Arts convention.
Preconference sessions on public art will be held June 6-7, along with a meeting of the U.S. Urban Arts Federation, the executive directors of arts councils and commissions in the 50 largest cities.
The convention takes place the next three days at the Renaissance Hotel and the Nashville Convention Center.
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