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Art Valet: Cultured Cocktails, and Long Live the Arts

The Houston Leader 16 Aug 2018

Thursday evening would you like to join me for a cocktail? My market, First Saturday Arts Market was chosen to be part of a Fresh Arts initiative to raise funds in a creative way—happy hour! ... “This event is self-funded by the artists and myself as the artists feel it is necessary to invest in themselves and I support the culmination and cultivation of creativity.”....

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Exhibit Highlights WWI Artists and Illustrators

Newport This Week 16 Aug 2018

Some 350 American artists, including Howard Chandler Christy, Norman Rockwell, J.C. Leyendecker and Jessie Wilcox Smith, created posters and advertisements designed to influence public sentiment in support of the war, boost enlistment and raise funds. Combining artistic skill with powerful advertising messages, the posters are stunning representations of propaganda as patriotism....

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Aretha Franklin's honors through the years

Detroit news 16 Aug 2018

In 2006, she was the first female artist to earn the United Negro College Fund’s Award of Excellence. The Recording Academy (the Grammys) named her MusiCares Person of the Year in 2008, honoring her “artistic and philanthropic achievements.”Honorary doctorates (doctor of music) from the Berklee School of Music, Yale University, the University of ......

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New state ‘Aeroplate’ available now

The Edmond Sun 16 Aug 2018

Designed by Oklahoma artist Christopher Nick, the plate is a nod to commercial, military, and general aviation. Funds from the plate will be used to support aviation education programs to address the need for a ......

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Dorkay House's Queeneth Ndaba dies at age 81

Sowetan Live 16 Aug 2018

She was 81 ... She knew all the music events that were taking place and would supply artists with the information [they needed]. Even when we had to apply for funding, she would assist when filling in the forms ... ....

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Grime artist Stormzy has launched a scholarship for black students in a bid to tackle the chronic lack of diversity at the UK's top universities

Business Insider 16 Aug 2018

Stormzy. Grime artist Stormzy has just announced he will fund two black students this year and two in 2019 to go to Cambridge University, which is currently ranked the 2nd best university in the UK, and the 6th in the world ... Welcome back Stormzy! Thank you for coming back to celebrate with Harris students as they get their results ... Stormzy will fund one student per year himself, and the rest of the funds will come from YouTube Music ... ....

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Expanded Athens music fest gets infusion of art

The Athens News 16 Aug 2018

Another artistic addition to the formerly known Athens Community Music Festival is an opening reception presented by the Athens Photographic Project, from 5-7 .30 p.m ... Lawrence said the Arts Commission wanted to hold an event that celebrates Athens’ richness in art and artists ... The art was created this summer by a dozen local youth artists....

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‘Sound for Silents’ on the Walker hillside; 6 artists receive Cedar Commissions

MinnPost 16 Aug 2018

Tonight, for example, you can see “Coco” at Kenny Park ... Dr ... Six emerging artists receive Cedar Commissions In the eighth round of the Cedar Commissions , formerly the 416 Commissions, six Minnesota-based artists will each receive $4,500 to compose and perform at least 30 minutes of new music ... To date, the series has funded the creation of new music by more than 50 artists across genres ... More than 120 artists will have table exhibitions ... ....

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Scholarship planned in memory of longtime author, columnist

Newburyport Daily News 16 Aug 2018

NEWBURYPORT – The late columnist and author John Lagoulis once wrote, "Anything and everything is in constant change; it's nature's way." ... Proceeds from the sale of his books over the years have been invested in a fund that will endow the nonrenewable scholarship. Joan Lagoulis, who is now an artist living in Florida, was visiting Newburyport this week to unveil plans for the scholarship in her father's memory ... ....

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WCC Arts and Humanities Fall Schedule Announced

The Goldsboro News-Argus 16 Aug 2018

"We try to identify speakers and topics that will be of interest to our community and will advance the cause of arts and humanities ... Another genre represented centers around "hip-hop diplomacy," when UNC-Chapel Hill director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Mark Katz, talks about the State Department-funded program he directs that sends hip-hop artists abroad to foster cultural exchange in underserved countries ... strategy ... ....

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Scottish independence needing more minds than hearts, brave or not

Open Democracy 16 Aug 2018

Eigg. Photograph, James Gray, some rights reserved ... Schellenberg eventually sold to a German artist whose own grand plans, and finance, quickly failed. Leaving limbo The artist’s prolonged absences prompted residents to realise their island risked being sold a second time in as many years ... By reviving a previous public appeal for funds, they raised the £1.5 million sought by the artist’s creditors to buy the land in communal trust....

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Local teachers get grant funding

Citizen Tribune 15 Aug 2018

Through its Great Idea! Grants, the Loudon County Education Foundation recently funded projects that will directly impact more than 4,000 local school students. This year’s funds, totaling $21,204.44, were awarded to 15 recipients, according to an LCEF release ... North Middle School art teacher Shari Moon is no stranger to LCEF funds ... Moon pushed for funds because she felt there was a void in technology in the school’s art class....

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Artist Mini-Grant applications due by Aug. 31

Iron County Today 15 Aug 2018

CEDAR CITY–The Cedar City Arts Council encourages individual artists and arts organizations to apply for the Artists’ Mini-Grants Awards due Aug ... Past projects have included funding for ... The Cedar City Arts Council works to promote and support local art and artists and arts organizations ... Members of the Cedar City Arts Council help fund this project with their memberships to increase the artist offerings of our area....

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