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2003 NEA PROPOSAL DEADLINES, www.arts.endow.gov
Apply to NEA for funding of your folk and traditional arts programs that involve young people, educators, and families. Contact each division for further information:
June 2, Challenge America (Fast-Track)
June 16, Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth (Where the new money is, people!)
August 18, Heritage and Preservation
August 18, Challenge America (Standard Review)
COMING UP TALLER AWARDS for outstanding after-school and school arts and humanities programs for young people--more folk and community-based arts projects are being nominated and are winning these $10,000 prizes from the President's Committee on the Arts & Humanities. For example, the Neighborhood Arts project at the Duke Center for Documentary Studies won this year. Nominate your programs, deadline April 4, www.cominguptaller.org.
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RESOURCES
Please use and publicize the new CARTS artist residency with NEA Heritage
Fellow Eva Castellanoz, a master corona maker. Students may interview
Eva online and learn about her life in Mexico, Texas, and Oregon as well
as how to make wax flowers and much more, from migrant farmers and sugar
beets to quinceañeras. Makalé Faber, our CARTS media maven,
developed extensive activities and compelling information and resources.
The 2003 CARTS Catalog will be out soon. New entries are already in the online Catalog at www.carts.org. For a hard copy, send snail mail address to Hiroko Kazama, hkazama@citylore.org.
