"Walt Whitman Would Have Hated DOGE —
... an essential question that any artist and civic figure who believes American ideals are worth sustaining must ask: How shall we honor, remember and learn from our national past? And how shall we transmit essential values of the past to citizens of the future?
... "
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/opinion/doge-nea-neh-walt-whitman.html
#art #arts #history #OpEd #NEA #NEH
Nighty-nite, my dear diary & geniuses. That's it ft. May everyone sleep well & tomorrow be brighter. Night-ending music <<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEP_ghoe2eI >> #nea #rio #stb #MV #新曲公開 #オリジナル曲 #newmusic #newrelease2025 #Music🐾
A colleague's Importent article on Philadelphia arts organizations losing their NEA Grants
"Celebrating #Jewish Culture with #Books
Celebrate Jewish culture, tradition, language, and beliefs as well as the achievements and contributions of Jewish people with these recommended titles from #NEA’s Jewish Affairs Caucus and NEA’s Read Across America.
Find these recommendations and more titles at your local #library through World Cat. "
"The Order targets #NPR & #PBS expressly because, in the President's view, their news & other content is not 'fair, accurate, or unbiased.'"
The “wolf”line was drawn from a 1988 dissent by the late #SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia.
The suit says the admin is usurping #Congress' right to direct how federal money will be spent & to pass laws. It names #Trump, OMB dir #RussVought, Treasury Secy #ScottBessent & #MariaRosarioJackson, the chair of the #NEA, as defendants.
Today in The Medium Newsletter, Anna Dorn shares thoughts about the aesthetics of #AI, with stories by @revivingvirtue and @pluralistic. Other featured stories cover the cancellation of #NEA grants, the process of book writing, and thoughts prompted by an academic meta-analysis by @james_horton. https://blog.medium.com/can-ai-see-beauty-aa1f6e70fea2
Why Eliminating the NEA Would Be a Disaster For Our Country (Guest Column)
#Arts #Lifestyle #Donaldtrump #NEA #Politics
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/pauline-chalamet-nea-cuts-column-1236214548/
Trump Reshapes U.S. Cultural Landscape: Firing of Library of Congress Head Signals Broader Arts Overhaul
#CarlaHayden #LibraryOfCongress
#TrumpAdministration #NEA
#CulturalPolicy
https://eng.harbouchanews.com/2025/05/trump-reshapes-us-cultural-landscape.html
Trump Administration’s Termination Of Arts Grants Hammers Film Festivals Nationwide: “We’re Sounding The Alarm Bell”
#Festivals #News #Politics #CamdenInternationalFilmFestival #DEI #Frameline #NationalEndowmentForTheArts #NEA #SundanceInstitute #TrueFalse
https://deadline.com/2025/05/trump-administation-arts-grants-cancellations-1236391086/
We can't have nice things in 2025, if the current regime has its way, and the #LowellFolkFest is one of those things. Donate to help the show go on: https://lowellfolkfestival.org/pages/donate #nea #federalfunding #resist2025
Мэри Энн Картер, возглавлявшая Национальное управление по делам искусств США при Трампе, снова номинирована на этот пост на фоне предложений президента ликвидировать ведомство и отмены грантов. #США #Культура #Трамп #NEA #Искусство #Финансирование
Детальніше: https://newsua.us/node/5771
Along with devastating cuts to numerous govt agencies and relief programs, it should come as no surprise that #DJT admin's ugly cuts to #NEA grants were coming. The severance of support to #arts charities and non profit agencies were made official last week, ending previous grant$ from the #NationalEndowment for the Arts and longstanding annual committments are effectively canceled, almost immediately.
The grant cancellations are particularly dire for arts organizations for which NEA funding may constitute the bulk of a project's budget.
In #SFBayArea , the cut$ include support for the #LGBTQ centric #Frameline #FilmFestival, #SFJAZZ, #Berkeley Rep, Women’s Audio Mission, #American Conservatory #Theater, #TheLab, San Francisco International #Arts #Festival and many many more worthy recipients. Most of these iconic and dedicated organizations will of course be able to continue their track record of creativity and community service, but will be seeking more fiscal signs of support from local sources than ever before and encourage patrons to get personally connected.
Ah yes, the grifter-in-chief is fundraising from the Kennedy Center with his right hand while he guts the NEA with his left hand
“Defunding the arts is an old authoritarian trick. **You don’t have to jail the poet if you can just cut off the grant that helps them speak. You don’t need to ban the mural if you can make sure it never gets painted.** You simply starve the ecosystem until expression withers. And then you call it “efficiency.””
https://open.substack.com/pub/welivedit/p/art-for-the-people-grift-for-the
All 10 directors who oversee grants in various disciplines of the arts — such as museums, theater, design, and folk and traditional arts — are leaving the agency, according to a review of emails obtained by The Washington Post as well as three people with close knowledge of the agency, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press. #NEA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/05/07/nea-staff-departure/
The Austin arts and humanities are being hit hard by the Trump mandated cuts to the NEA and NEH:
https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2025/05/07/trump-federal-cuts-austin-arts
https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2025/04/08/austin-national-endowment-humanities-grants-trump
I have no doubt that communities across the USA are also being hit by these crippling NEA/NEH grant cancellations.
The money that would have benefited a host of artists, performers, researchers, writers and , most importantly, myriad American audiences and readers is now going to be diverted to Trump's pet "history" project, The National Garden of American Heroes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Garden_of_American_Heroes
If this Garden of OFFICIAL HISTORY kitsch ever comes into being, visitors who are not distracted by parties of bored school children will be left to wonder what criteria required the commemoration of Calvin Coolidge but not LBJ, or of Steve Jobs but not Walter Reuther. They might also lament that the compilers of this list of "American" heroes did not pause before including Tecumseh, whose gallant resistance against US expansionism ended with the desecration of his body at the hands of American soldiers.
#USPolitics #USHistory #NEH #NEA #GardenOfAmericanHeroes #Tecumseh
#USPolitics #Arts #NationalEndowmentForTheArts #NEA
Via Claire Willett: "links, trackers, webinars, templates, and all the free support you need if you just got that nightmare NEA email on Friday
please share far and wide, you do NOT have to be in Oregon to use these resources"
The deadline to appeal funding cancellations is THURSDAY MAY 8--three days from now.
https://www.orartswatch.org/emergency-alert-six-action-steps-if-your-nea-grant-was-just-canceled/
If Your NEA Grant Is Terminated, Here’s What to Do
#IndieWire #GeneralNews #News #Film #FilmFestivalAlliance #NEA
https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/nea-grant-terminated-what-to-do-1235120597/
Update. "National Endowment for the Arts rescinds grants, dazing publishers and theaters."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater/2025/05/04/trump-budget-nea-arts-grants-canceled/
"Arts organizations across the country saw their grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether."
#Arts #DefendResearch #Funding #NEA #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
