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I just updated my King David Harp page on my website, with new photos and videos from Youtube. Please take a look!:-)King David Davidic Harps, Nevels and Kinnors I am now able to offer my Kinnors created with Olive Wood from the … Continue reading The Custom Harp builder, Glenn J. Hill of Mountain Glen Harps 2013-04-21 13:54:00 
As I have been sitting back at my desk at Americans for the Arts this afternoon, I’ve had a hard time coming up with a way to describe what I experienced last night at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It could be the lack of sleep, the lack of coffee, or [...] Continue reading Yo-Yo Ma Spins an Emotional Tale of “Art for Life’s Sake” Americans for the Arts’ Public Art Network Year in Review program is the only national program that specifically recognizes public art projects. Up to 50 projects are selected annually through an open-call application process and selected by two to three jurors. The projects are available on CD-Rom in our bookstore and include a PowerPoint, data [...] Continue reading Public Art Year in Review Spotlight – “Your Essential Magnificence” in Austin, TX “Open the Door and Come In,” a sweet phrase invented as a fortune cookie prediction by her granddaughter, fully expresses the life and work of Penny Balkin Bach, Public Art Dialogue’s (PAD) 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Penny is the longtime executive director of the Association for Public Art (APA; formerly the Fairmount Park Art [...] Continue reading Open the Door & Come In: Celebrating Penny Balkin Bach One of our great American leaders, Congressman John Lewis, has been celebrated in the news quite a bit recently. It is the 48th anniversary of the civil rights march across the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, AL. The march was led by a young John Lewis—his skull was fractured, and for that sacrifice an enormous [...] Continue reading The Strength of Diversity: The Strength of the Arts Shorty. Sweetie. Sweetheart. Baby. Boo. If you’re a woman, you’ve probably heard it. If you were to respond, what would you say? Last fall, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh began replying — through her art — to the dozens of men who approached her in public each week. As night fell, she slipped out of her Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment armed with … Continue reading Using Art to talk back to Unwanted “Compliments” Doodle 4 Google is an annual program that invites K-12 students in the United States to use their artistic talents to think big and redesign our homepage logo for millions to see. This year, we ask students to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, “My Best Day Ever…” One talented student artist will see their artwork appear on the Google homepage, receive a $30,000 college scholarship, and a $50,000 technology grant for their school along with some other cool prizes! Download the entry form HERE We had a variety of best practices covered during our annual Public Art Network (PAN) Blog Salon this week. Let’s wrap it all up with a major thanks to our ‘lucky’ 13 bloggers who shared their experience and lessons-learned of best practices from across the country. According to Jimmy LeFlore’s post, we can have cake [...] As a Vans Custom Culture national charity partner in 2013, Americans for the Arts is proud to work closely with Vans to reinforce the importance of arts education in schools across the country. With the launch of the Vans Custom Culture art competition on January 2, budding artists and designers are racing to have their [...] Continue reading Enter the Vans Custom Culture Contest to Support Art Education at Your School |
    
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