{"id":2247,"date":"2017-06-15T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2019-09-12T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T16:16:51","slug":"nea-supports-jazz-and-us-arts-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2017\/06\/nea-supports-jazz-and-us-arts-nationwide.html","title":{"rendered":"NEA supports jazz and US arts nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The NEA funds traditional American cultural activities such as mule-cart tours of Green River Utah besides free hi-def webcasts of Jazz at Lincoln Center concerts – NEA Arts.gov\/no copyright infringement is intended<\/p><\/div>\n

The National Endowment of the Arts<\/a>, arguably the most misunderstood and beleaguered doing-good office of the federal gov’t (excluding the NEH<\/a>, EPA<\/a>, Consumer Financial Bureau<\/a>, Civil Rights Division <\/a>of the Justice Dept., and a few others) has issued its 2017 funding report, highlighting that its monies (monies from we US taxpayers) flow to communities\u00c2\u00a0in all 50 states and five territories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Included is support for 36 jazz-related projects, most generated in the usual\u00c2\u00a0cities\u00c2\u00a0but also to entities\u00c2\u00a0based in Baton Rouge LA; Hartford CT; Pinecrest and Tallahassee FLA; Geneva, Rochester, Saratoga Springs and West Park NY; Bethlehem, Easton and Hershey PA, and Burlington VT.<\/p>\n

Most of the biggest grants — such as the $55k to the Thelonious Monk Foundation of Jazz’s “Peer-to-Peer Jazz Education<\/a>” tour of public performing arts high schools in San Diego, Fargo and Sioux Falls; $50k to Newark Public Radio (that’s WBGO<\/a>) to produce and broadcast “Jazz Night in America,” $50k to Jazz at Lincoln Center for production of hi-def, freely accessed concert webcasts<\/a> — benefit audiences beyond the immediate local sphere of the receiving organizations. \u00c2\u00a0The smallest grants ($10k) go to performance series in the smaller cities, and production of ambitious recorded projects by NEA Jazz Master Anthony Braxton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here for download is the complete list of jazz projects –\u00c2\u00a0Jazz Awards 2017 FINAL<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0— some of which mix chamber music, dance and poetry with music.<\/p>\n

Having just named the four NEA Jazz Masters<\/a> (pianist Joanne Brackeen, guitarist Pat Metheny, vocalist Dianne Reeves, advocate\/producer Todd Barkan) to be inducted in 2018, the Arts agency is looking ahead, despite being targeted for extinction by the federal budget proposal. As posted on its grant webpage:<\/p>\n

The President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s FY 2018 budget proposes the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, with a request for $29 million intended to be used for the orderly shutdown of the agency. This budget request is a first step in a very long budget process<\/a>. We continue to accept grant applications for FY 2018 at our usual deadlines and will continue to operate as usual until a new budget is enacted by Congress.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The fight over the budget proposal is expected to last months, until FY 2018 begins on Oct. 1, 2017. If you value what the NEA does, tell all your Congress-people to restore operating funds to the NEA (and NEH and Corporation for Public Broadcasting) as well as resist cuts in the safety net provided by the US government (elected by US citizen tax-payers) for the ill, elderly and impoverished. Urge friends to do the same.<\/p>\n

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The National Endowment of the Arts, arguably the most misunderstood and beleaguered doing-good office of the federal gov’t (excluding the NEH, EPA, Consumer Financial Bureau, Civil Rights Division of the Justice Dept., and a few others) has issued its 2017 funding report, highlighting that its monies (monies from we US taxpayers) flow to communities\u00c2\u00a0in all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1523,1531,1536,1539,1528,1537,1522,1532,1529,1538,1497,1525,64,1126,62,1526,1524,1533,1534,1530,1519,1527,634,1535],"class_list":{"0":"post-2247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-anthony-braxton","9":"tag-baton-rouge-la","10":"tag-bethlehem-pa","11":"tag-burglington-vt","12":"tag-dianne-reeves-howard-mandel","13":"tag-easton-pa","14":"tag-federally-supported-jazz","15":"tag-geneva-ny","16":"tag-green-river-utah","17":"tag-hershey-pa","18":"tag-jazz-beyond-jazz","19":"tag-joanne-brackeen","20":"tag-national-endowment-for-the-arts","21":"tag-nea","22":"tag-nea-jazz-masters","23":"tag-pat-metheny","24":"tag-pinecrest-fl","25":"tag-rochester-ny","26":"tag-saratoga-springss-ny","27":"tag-tallahassee-fl","28":"tag-thelonious-monk-institute-of-jazz","29":"tag-todd-barkan","30":"tag-wbgo","31":"tag-west-park-ny","32":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mule-ride-epicenter.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-Af","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":762,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2012\/01\/who-should-the-next-nea-jazz-masters-be.html","url_meta":{"origin":2247,"position":0},"title":"Who should the next NEA Jazz Masters be?","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"January 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Who should be the next NEA Jazz Masters? 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