TO: Nashville Arts Organizations,
27 October 2000
Sculptor Kenneth Snelson opens Public Art Forum series
Kenneth Snelson, an American sculptor noted for his floating compression constructions, will be in Nashville Thursday, Nov. 9, to open the 2000-2001 Public Art Forum series. Snelson's slide-lecture begins at 7 PM in room 126 of David K. Wilson Hall, Vanderbilt University, 111 21st Avenue South. The event is free and open to the public.
This program is sponsored by the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission, the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Office of Cultural Enrichment, and the Visual Arts Alliance of Nashville (VAAN).
With a career spanning over 50 years, Snelson continues his exploration of the physics of structure and even theorizes on the riddle of basic matter with an extended multimedia work, Portrait of an Atom. Out of Snelson's search for truth and his fundamental concern with structure comes his particular method and material choice, steel cables and polished stainless steel or aluminum tubes held erect only by tension wires.
Born in Pendleton, Oregon, in 1927, Snelson studied at Black Mountain College in Black Mountain, NC, the Chicago Institute of Design; the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon; and with Fernand Léger in Paris.
For further information or directions, call MNAC at (615) 862-6720.
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Capital improvements budget produces public art funds
The Metro Council approved capital improvement plans proposed by Mayor Purcell to fund new construction and major renovations to several public buildings. As stipulated by the new Percent for Public Art Ordinance, approximately $470,000 in general obligation bonds issued to fund these construction projects will be set aside to fund public art.
Before any funds can be expended by the Metro Nashville Arts Commission, the ordinance requires that Public Art Guidelines be adopted. Walter Schatz, Public Art Guidelines Committee chair, reported at the October Commission meeting that the committee was on track for completing these guidelines by late December or early January. Once the guidelines are complete, the Arts Commission must approve them. The guidelines will address such issues as purpose and goals, policies of acquisition of art, placement of works of art, criteria for selection of artist and art, funding, maintenance and conservation, and conflict of interest.
Public Art Guidelines Committee members are commissioners Walter Schatz as chair, Paulette Coleman as ex-officio, Ann Butterworth, Andrée LeQuire, and Michael McBride, Kim Hawkins of Hawkins Partners, Inc., Chase Rynd of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Ron Gobbell of Gobbell Hayes Partners, Donna Glassford from the Office of Cultural Enrichment, V.U.M.C., and Marilyn Murphy of Vanderbilt University Art Department.
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CNM hosts Salute to Excellence
On November 6, the Center for Nonprofit Management will host its annual Salute to Excellence dinner, designed to recognize and celebrate excellence in nonprofit management. It is the one opportunity each year for Nashville's nonprofit sector to celebrate itself, not only for its good work but for its efficiency and effectiveness in getting the work done.
The honors to be given at the event are the Frist Foundation Awards of Achievement, the Marvin Runyon Leadership Award, the KraftCPAs Board Member of the Year Award, the Nashville Business Journal Excellence in Communications Award, and the Association of Non-Profit Executives Chief Executive Officer of the Year Award, sponsored by Bank of America.
Individual tickets are $45. For more information contact the Center for Nonprofit Management at (615) 259-0100.
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NEA offers grant opportunities!
If you are interested in additional funding opportunities, go to the National Endowment for the Arts website at http://arts.endow.gov and check out what's "new on the site." Below are some of the items you will find.
NEA Regional Touring Program
The NEA Regional Touring Program, an NEA partnership with the six regional organizations, their member state arts agencies, and the private sector, provides access to the live performing arts to all Americans. For more information, visit the NEA web site.
Resources for Change: technology guidelines available
With these guidelines, the National Endowment for the Arts introduces Resources for Change, a planned series of initiatives designed to address the organizational development needs of arts organizations. The first of these initiatives is a new grant program focused on technology. For more information, visit the NEA web site.
Media Literacy Grants Announced
U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Bill Ivey recently announced $990,000 in grants to school districts to help young people better understand and interpret the artistic content of electronic media images - including those that contain violence. The awarded projects will help students create their own media-based projects using film, video, web site design, and other art forms that can offer an alternative to violent messages. For more information, visit the NEA web site.
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Humanities Tennessee presents workshops
Humanities Tennessee (formerly the Tennessee Humanities Council) will present grants workshops in Cleveland, Jonesborough, and Gallatin for organizations interested in developing humanities grant projects. Call (615) 320-2001 for further information.
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Public art in Hermitage Park
The Arts Commission participated with the Parks Department in naming an ad hoc design review committee to examine the proposed sculpture by artist Joe Sorci at the new Hermitage Park. Both the Arts Commission and the Board of Parks approved the project at their meetings this month.
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Reminder: election analysis
It's not too late to sign-up for the MNAC audioconference on November 9. Participants will hear how the results of this year's Presidential and Congressional elections might impact the arts community, public and private funding, and policy trends at the federal, state, and local levels.
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NEA funding increases
With President Clinton's signing of the Fiscal Year 2001 Interior Appropriations bill into law, funding to the National Endowment for the Arts increased for the first time in eight years by $7.3 million to a total of $105 million.
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Noted NEA supporter dies
Congressman Sidney Yates (Democrat-IL) died October 5 at 89. He chaired the House subcommittee for Interior Appropriations for two decades and championed both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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