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The NEA is a federal government agency with the initial goal help people learn to appreciate and give their attention to art by putting it somewhere they could not ignore it, in the public. The NEA still serves as an organization today, although it has focused itself to giving Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts and exercise their

What the NEA set out to do and what it does are two different things. The NEA is first and foremost set up as a nonpartisan branch of the government; however, throughout the past decade, the NEA has been found in the pockets of many partisan politicians. An independent agency of the government is supposedly not controlled by Democratic or Republic parties. In the past decade proof of political control and gain has been proven to regulate the NEA. The parties use the NEA to gain political standing in the races, and “[t]hey have been eager to promote government involvement in setting the arts agenda—especially in creating art that promotes the… administration” (Keane 2). Grants were given to the artist that made their art pieces focus on the issues the Obama administration was promoting. Prior to the Obama administration, there were

The “Big Four” policy agendas of President Johnson’s Great Society initiatives tend to garner the most attention: federal aid to elementary and secondary education, Medicare and Medicaid, Immigration Reform, and Civil Rights Act. An often-overlooked policy agenda is the creation of what is now the National Endowment for the Arts (“NEA”). The NEA is often compared to two Works Progress Association (“WPA”) programs, the Federal Arts Project and the Federal Writers Project. Both were intended to create jobs as part of a larger economic stimulus package (Bauerlin and Grantham, p. 1). Although parallels are

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency that is funded by the federal government to help support many artists around the U.S. It has successfully been granting artists of every kind and has benefitted thousands of individuals and communities since its establishment in 1965. The NEA has had a huge impact in the development and the preservation of dance, design, folk and traditional arts, literature, media arts, museums, music, opera, theater, and visual arts (arts.gov). Over the years the NEA has awarded more than $4 billion to support artistic excellence, creativity, and innovation. It is the largest annual funder of the arts in the United states and has awarded more than 140,000 grants. In order to extend its reach

Some of the provisions The CREATE Act would take to support the creative community development and in turn improving the communities people live in would be ensuring that traditional economic development would support the creative economy throughout the country. That would be done by making it a requirement for The Economic Development Administration (EDA) and the US Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Administration. Some of the other provisions would be creating an Artists Corp which would increase national service through the arts and developing a model to promote local economic initiatives within the arts. (American for the Arts 2017)

The National Endowment of the Arts or NEA for short,is a private organization who funds and gives grants to dance, design, folk, traditional arts, literature, media arts, museums, music, opera, theater, and visual arts. The NEA has a great impact on lives around the world and the art you see in museums, galleries, magazines and art events. The NEA should continue to distribute grants to creative minds looking for a better future, it promotes freedom of expression, it allows art critics the ability to choose what they want to see and, because it is privately funded, more donations are given to them.

The Arts. Ask for More campaign was an arts education awareness campaign. In 2002 the Americans for the Arts saw a need and decided to do something about the lack of arts education our children were getting. They partnered with organizations like the Ad Council, the NAMM Foundation, and several other campaigns and arts organizations nationwide. The campaign grew and lasted for eight years.

The NEA is the largest annual funder of the arts in the United States. Since its inception, the NEA has awarded more than 140,000 grants, including early support for the Sundance Film Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial design competition, PBS's Great Performances series, and the American

My commitment to arts management and policy developed through my extracurricular involvement in the performing arts and work as a Development Assistant at Primary Stages, an off-Broadway theatre company in New York City. I am applying for the MA in Arts Management, Policy, and Practice in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester due to its emphasis on practical skills and work experience. Moreover, as I pursue a career as a performing arts manager, the university’s proximity to arts and cultural organizations will provide opportunities to engage with the competitive field of arts administration.

Their argument won the place earlier in the Goals 2000 legislation and lately in the No Child left behind the legislation. However, most of the people do not consider the arts as an academic subject but as-as creativity, emotions, expressions and recreational matter. They assert the importance of arts in an individual’s life, but they still don’t consider it as critical to the enterprise of education.

In 1965, when Congress established the National Endowment of the Arts, it was clearly stated in the Declaration of Purpose, "It is necessary and appropriate for the Federal Government to help create and sustain ... a climate encouraging freedom of thought, imagination, and inquiry" (Leone 16). Congress promised that the government would provide the material support, funding, necessary to facilitate "the release of this creative talent" (16). From 1965 to the present, the NEA, based on determination of aesthetic

Analyzing my leadership style, I could draw close parallels to the pace-setting and authoritative styles of leadership as outlined by HBR articles on Leadership Styles - Leadership That Gets Results by Daniel Goldman. I have always tried to set high standards for my team by leading from the front and inspiring them by setting an example of excellence. I also demonstrated the authoritative style by not forcing the team to strictly follow the methods I utilized but providing them autonomy to

Throughout my academic career I have repeatedly been exposed to the topic of education in the arts. More specifically, I encountered the debate of whether art programs should be funded by school districts. I never quite understood why it was such a big question, but many oppose the idea, due to the belief that art is not a necessity. I would consider those people who disagree with art funding idiotic; as I consider it an absolute necessity that school districts provide funding for the arts.

In, “2008, a record-breaking 858 million public dollars was spent on the arts by local governments in the United States.“ The government has already spent millions of dollars on funding artist's work. Some of the artist work is either altered or destroyed by many events or people. Some of the world's greatest sculptures have been made without government funding. The governments should be funding people who don’t have a job or people who come from low-income families because they need more help than the people who have significant amounts of money saved up for their children or like rainy day funds. Also they should be helping the people who were in a natural disaster or can’t pay for their medical bill because they aren’t

• Which of the above leadership styles do you think your immediate manager adhere to? Support your assumption.