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A high-school student in Maine is suing the National Endowment for the Arts after the agency disqualified him from a poetry contest because he isn't an American citizen or green card holder. Allan Monga, a junior at Portland's Deering High School, fled Zambia last year and applied for asylum in the United States.
It's not the first time that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has faced the threat of extinction from federal and Congressional budget proposals, and perhaps not the last. But as CPB's chief executive officer told television critics at a recent meeting in Beverly Hills, anything is possible in the climate currently gripping Washington.
I don't know what good this particular drawing serves as 'political art.' For me, it was a frustration-sink of anger over the nepotism, cronyism, and self-dealing represented by Trump's regime.
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Supporters of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities argue that the troglodyte Trump wants to return America to the Stone Age, before Uncle Sam rescued an uncouth nation from the horrors of square dancing, axe-throwing contests, and wind-swept silence.
The Washington Post tried to create what it thought was a clever agit/prop video in favor of the National Endowment for the Arts. Rather than showing NEA funding in big cities, the video explored funding largely in rural, conservative Indiana, represented by Republican congressmen.
Yonn Doung rehearses for Cornerstone Theatre's "Crossings, Journeys of Catholic Immigrants" in 2002 - a group that survives, in part, from NEA grants. Yonn Doung rehearses for Cornerstone Theatre's "Crossings, Journeys of Catholic Immigrants" in 2002 - a group that survives, in part, from NEA grants.
Some of the first acts of the Trump presidency were to remove all references to US Government policy on climate change and LGBT rights from the White House website. He also announced that he plans to stop funding the National Endowment for the Arts.
There was a time when Bryan Akipa knew nothing of flutes. But that was long ago, before the budding artist stumbled across a wooden mallard-head flute in the studio of his mentor, sparking a fascination that led to a career in both making and playing the distinctive Dakota flutes.
There was a time when Bryan Akipa knew nothing of flutes. But that was long ago, before the budding artist stumbled across a wooden mallard-head flute in the studio of his mentor, sparking a fascination that led to a career in both making and playing the distinctive Dakota flutes.