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The Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA), is the state agency that supports the arts through funding from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Commission was created in 1968, [ 3 ] is governed by 9 Commissioners appointed to five-year terms by the Governor [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and confirmed by the ...
PETERSBURG / CHESTERFIELD — Last week, Virginia Humanities, announced $218,182 in grants to 21 nonprofit organizations across the Commonwealth.
The National Endowment for the Arts was created during the term of President Lyndon B. Johnson under the general auspices of the Great Society.According to historian Karen Patricia Heath, "Johnson personally was not much interested in the acquisition of knowledge, cultural or otherwise, for its own sake, nor did he have time for art appreciation or meeting with artists."
An individual must acquire certain qualifications before applying for such a grant and the normal duration for project grants is three years. Formula grants provide funds as dictated by a law. Block grants are large grants provided from the federal government to state or local governments for use in a general purpose. [4]
Applications are open for Mid-America Arts Alliance’s annual Artistic Innovations grant, a program that since 2012 has awarded more than $2 million to regional artists and creative organizations ...
A cultural subsidy is a payment from the government to specific cultural industries to ensure that some public policy purpose in culture (e.g. multiculturalism, bilingualism, minority and languages, and preservation of traditional dance, music, food, art or other practices) are preserved and maintained in society.
Violence and Culture—the roots of violence and personal dislocation, and the struggle for individual survival and self-determination within systems of violence. Rights and Responsibilities—the still-evolving American traditions of self-government and justice, and the special role Virginia has played in shaping the concept of freedom worldwide.
The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the largest of the New Deal art projects.